Information

On this sheet of tracing paper Sandys has copied the top right section of the border running round a page in the 'Jerome Epistulae,' an illuminated manuscript. The manuscript is no. 3109 in the Harley Collection, a group of illuminated manuscripts which were given to the British Library but kept at the British Museum in the nineteenth century. This manuscript is thought to have been made in Rome in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, possibly by the artist Andrea da Firenze. The border has been copied from the page decorated with an illuminated letter 'I' and depicting St. Jerome writing at a desk in a luxurious garden. Sandys has faithfully copied the red, green and blue colouring and added orange where the original was touched with gold.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Frederick Sandys -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
Outline Black / M.S. Harl-3109- / B. M - AD circa 1450 [underlined] - Italy [underlined] - / The lights shaded with yellow - gold dots throughout in triplets [underlined]
Inscription body Handwritten 1850 c In pencil
 

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
 
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné
Betty Elzea 2001 Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service No. 1.C.39; 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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