Italian Sketchbook, Studies from Florence and Rome, begun 1787
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Sketchbook; graphite, pen and black ink and gray wash on bound in vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 inches (21.9 x 15.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on flyleaf in pen and black ink upper center: "John Flaxman Sculptor | began at Florence November the 4th | 1787"; in graphite upper left to lower left: "3 ador Magi | question Drs in Temp | driving mony changers | Peter on the Sea | entering Jerus on ass | last Supper | Pilate <...> washing his hands | Scourging | rising from the d.d | descent of Hy Ghost | Apostles | Eldest Doctrs | St Petrie | Petraj servitore agli | Confarsi Donatore = San Paolo | [...] Confesori | Palazzo Gavotte | Strada fortuna"; in graphite upper right to lower right: "1 Annunciation | 2 Nativity | 5 baptized by John | 6 temptation by ye Devil | 9 transfiguration | 10 raising Lazarus | 13 Apostles sleeping & Ld's Prayer | 14 Betrayal of Judas | 17 bearing the cross | 18 crucifixion | Ghirlandaio | Offerings of wise men | angels sarranading"; inscribed in ink inside back cover: "Trinita del Monte opposite Mr Nulti's a corner house | 10 < ... > | 3-4-11 | 3-7-<7> | 10 | 3-4 | 30 | 3-4 | 33-4 | 3-4 | < ... > | 6-9 | 17 - 5 | 99 - | 118 - 5"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.468
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Associated Places:
Florence
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
David Irwin, John Flaxman, 1755-1826, sculptor, illustrator, designer, Rizzoli, New York and London, 1979, pp. 29-66 passim, NJ18 .F615 I78 + Oversize (YCBA)Edouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 12, 13, 21, 311, Fig. 1, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Eckart Marchand, Flaxman: The Yale Sketchbook : Sketchbook Used by John Flaxman During His Stay in Italy (1787-94) Containing Sketches from Florence and Rome, Dated 4 November 1787, , Walpole Society, vol. 72, 2010, pp. 119-85, figs. 1-87, N12 W35 A1 vol. 72 + (YCBA)John Marciari, The Grand Tour : an exhibition held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 15 January through 31 March MCMCVIII, Yale University Library, New Haven, 1998, p. 22, N8214.5 .I8 M27 1998 + Oversize (YCBA)Nadia Tscherny, George Romney : Flaxman modelling the bust of Hayley, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1985 ?, p. 8, no. 22, V 0101 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pg. 127-129, cat. no. 109, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)