The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 9 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 97

Copy
Conthe verso was copied in pen c.15 8 0 by Andrea
Commodi on Uffizi 18654 Frecto.

References
Ottley, 1808 - 23 ,p. 29 (“Upon the top of one of the
pages is this date, written by Buonaroti’s own hand:’il
quidici disectebre, followed by a horizontal stroke of the
pen, which is intersected by three perpendicular strokes,
followed by a fourth which reaches only to the top of
the horizontal line;...a memorandum doubtless made
on the day specified, and, perhaps, relating to some small
debt incurred by him for an article of housekeeping.”).
Woodburn, 1836 b, included in no. 50. Fisher, 1852 ,p. 1 ,
pl. 6 , left (Recto); pl. 7 ,right (Verso). Fisher, 1865 ,p. 16 ,
I, pl. 6 , left (Recto); pl. 7 ,right (Verso). Robinson,187 0,
no. 24. 1 (Michel Angelo. Recto: for window lunettes.

Ve r so: principal figure [G] “may have been a first idea
for...Ioel....Two other slight sketches of the same fig-
ure seem to show that it was intended to be further
developed.”). Fisher,187 2,I,p. 14 , pl. 6 left (Recto);
pl. 7 ,right (Verso) (As 1852 .). Fisher,187 9, XVI. 1 / 13
left (Recto); XVI. 1 a/ 14 right (Verso). Justi, 1900 ,p. 132
([C, G, and H] preliminary ideas forIoel.). Steinmann,
1905 , II, pp. 424 – 5 , 604 ,no. 61 A, left (Recto: date
must refer to 1511 .Fivesketches for the lunettes; inscrip-
tion in Michelangelo’s hand.); no. 61 B, r ight (Ve rso:
sketches for lunettes including seated man at right of
Roboamlunette.). Thode, 1908 ,I,p. 270 (Michelan-
gelo. Recto and verso: no specific connections can be
established with executed figures.). K. Frey, 1909 – 11 ,no.
151. 2 (Verso [now recto]: inscription autograph. Resem-
blance to lunette figures but no links specified.); no.15 2. 5
(Recto [now verso]: analogous figures in Aminadab
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