Currently not on view
Grotesque design with unicorn
Attributed to Biagio Pupini, Italian, active 1511–1551
formerly North Italian , Sixteenth Century
formerly North Italian , Sixteenth Century
x1947-17
Information
Title
Grotesque design with unicorn
Maker
Attributed to Biagio Pupini
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized) and grey gouache, on tan laid paper toned with brown wash
Dimensions
9.6 x 18.8 cm. (3 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1947-17
Inscription
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: Flar; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: Parmigianini/ Richardson CW
Culture
Type
Subject
N. Lanier (?, Lugt 2886) lower left recto twice; Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2184) lower center; P. Huart (?, Lugt 2084 and 2086) lower left; Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. (Lugt supp. 1853a) lower left
formerly North Italian, Sixteenth Century
- "Recent accessions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1948): p. 7., p. 7
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: pp. 91-92, no. 237 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
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Nicholas Turner, "Review of "catalogue of Italian drawings in the Art Museum", Princeton University by Felton Gibbons," Art bulletin 62, no. 3 (Sept., 1980), p. 486-490.
