Design for Decorative Hinges (recto)
mid 1500s
Luzio Romano
Luzio Romano (Italian, active 1528–75)
Drawings
Design for Decorative Hinges (recto), mid 1500s. Luzio Romano (Italian, active 1528–75). Pen and brown ink over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink (lower left, upper right); sheet: 29.8 x 17.5 cm (11 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.); secondary support: 40.2 x 25.4 cm (15 13/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.586.a
- Maker/Artist
- Luzio Romano
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink (lower left, upper right)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 29.8 x 17.5 cm (11 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 40.2 x 25.4 cm (15 13/16 x 10 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower left, in brown ink: Pierino ; RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in brown ink: 128 ; upper right, in black chalk(?): 32 ; center right, in graphite: 28 [underlined, sideways] ; lower right, in graphite: cx[l?] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower right, in graphite: A 309[7?] . ; FRAGMENT OF OLD MAT (now removed), across top, in graphite: Pierino del Vaga (circle of) Door Hinges ; across center, in graphite: Enlarged duplicate of / drawing at Windsor Castle / A. N. [underlined] ; lower right, in graphite: 159
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1924.586.a
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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