The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 30 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 167

H.These nearly indecipherable lines may represent a fee-

ble attempt to copy C or D; if this is correct, H may be

byAndrea Quaratesi.

I.Hercules and Antaeussketch; by Michelangelo.

J. Head of an old woman in right profile, lightly sketched

after K; by Antonio Mini.

K.Head of an old woman in right profile; by Michelan-

gelo.

L.A small seated owl, placed as though on the hunched

back of the woman; adapted from M; by Antonio

Mini.

M.A seated owl; by Michelangelo.

N.Twoeyes with the eye beams crossing, overlapping

M, on a small scale adapted from O; by Antonio Mini (or

Andrea Quaratesi?).

O.Twoeyes with a cross-over of eye beams; by Antonio

Mini.

The two sketches forHercules and Antaeus[F, I] seem the last

drawings to have been made on this side of the sheet.

Verso

With the lower edge as base

A.Indecipherable curling forms, overlapped by the

poem.

B.Immediately below A, indecipherable curling forms,

perhaps hanging hair, overlapped by the poem.

C.Immediately in front of D, indecipherable forms.

D. A male head in left profile, wearing an elaborate head-

dress with a long peak and stiff formalised feathers; by

Michelangelo.

E.A female head seen from the front, slightly turned to

the right, wearing a winged headdress; by Michelangelo

(overdrawn with an apparently meaningless line).

F. A crab, seen from above; by Michelangelo.

G.A male head in left profile, wearing an elaborate head-

dress, after D, by Antonio Mini.

H.A skull in left profile; by Antonio Mini, perhaps re-

worked by Michelangelo.

Probably copied from a teaching sketch of a skull by Michelan-

gelo at the lower left of Uffizi 598 Everso/B 185 /Corpus 307 ;

black chalk, 357 × 251 mm. This side of the sheet also carries a

second copy by Mini of the skull.

I. Locks of hair; by Antonio Mini.

This closely resembles drawings by Mini, such as those on Cat.

28 versoSand X, suggesting that the two sheets were worked

on at around the same time.

J. A series of indecipherable lines.

K.Agrasshopper in left profile; by Michelangelo.

L.Immediately below K, indecipherable.