Illuminated Letter 'O' with two additional Figures copied from Illuminated Manuscripts
1850 – 1859
Accession number: 1906P1027
Pencil and brown ink with watercolour on beige tracing paper.
Width: 134 mm
Height: 69 mm
Information
These three figures appear to have been copied from various illuminated manuscripts. The Birmingham collection holds a number of drawings, on tracing paper, copied from medieval manuscripts. They are likely to have been made around the same time, possibly in the 1850s from works held at the British Museum in the nineteenth century and now in the British Library (see Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné, p. 141). In his unpublished catalogue of drawings by Sandys in the Birmingham collection Jerome Peat links this drawing with two other sheets of drawings in the collection (see also 1906P1033 and 1906P1035). The colour of both the pigments used and the paper suggest that they were copied at the same time.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Frederick Sandys | - |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby | p. 396 |
| Catalogue of Sandys Drawings at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |||
| Jerome Peat | 1978 | - | - |
| Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné | |||
| Betty Elzea | 2001 | Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | No. 1.C.33, p. 141 |
Provenance
| Almost certainly to have been acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray from the artist, or from the sale of the contents of the Sandys family home after the death of Sandys' mother in September 1883 (Elzea). |
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