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School of Baccio Baldini, School of Maso Tommasoii Finiguerra
'The Florentine Picture - Chronicle'
An Album of pen and ink drawings in a tooled leather binding; Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk
1470 - 1475
Dimensions: 32.6 cm x 22.6 cm
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'The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (verso of 1889,0527.47): Linus seated on a throne and playing a portative organ, Musaeus facing him playing the lute
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk.

Popham & Pouncey 1950 The leaves of the book, in its present state, seem to be numbered 5 to 59 in a seventeenth(?)-century hand; the numbers, in the r.-hand top corner, have in many cases been partly trimmed away. The book was broken up by Ruskin, who was in the habit of lending parts of his books and manuscripts to friends and institutions in which he was interested, with the result that when the Museum purchased it from him in 1889 it contained only 49 folios. Of the remainder, two (1890,0314.1-4. Folios 13 and 14) were presented the next year by the trustees of the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield, and four (1900,0526.1-8. Folios 9, 22, 36, and 47) in 1900 by Ruskin's cousin, Mrs. Arthur Severn; folios 1 to 4 are missing, but there is nothing to indicate that they were not removed before Ruskin acquired the book.

13/03/2019
Owner Dates Owned Further info. circa
Baron Von Bernus
Hofrat Schlosser
Edward Schaeffer 1840 Bt In Florence C. 1840; Left To His Nephew Baron Von Bernus
Galerie F. A. C. Prestel 1872 Sold to Clément Paris
Clément Paris 1872-1873
John Ruskin 1873-1889 Bt On Recommendation Of EB-J
The British Museum BM 1889 - Present 1890,0314.1 Bt By BM (keeper Sidney Colvin)
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat. no. 354 p. 95 The Hayward Gallery
November 1975 January 1976
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat. no. 354 p. 95 Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
March 1976 April 1976
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat. no. 354 p. 95 Southampton City Art Gallery
January 1976 February 1976
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Burne-Jones: the paintings, graphic and decorative work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-98, Hayward Gallery 1975-6 John Christian, Miss Penelope Marcus 1975
cat. no. 354 p. 95


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