The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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34 2 COPIES OF SCULPTURES CATALOGUES 82–83

Salamanca.). De Tolnay, 1975 , Corpus I, p. 65 (Anto-

nio da Ponteassieve?.). Macandrew, 1980 ,no. 355 a (“[O]n

the evidence of the watermark, drawn at the time of the

tomb’s unveiling in15 4 5....According to Tolnay....[the

copyist] was not Antonio da Ponteassieve.”). Rosenberg,

2000 ,NZ 19 (Italian mid-sixteenth century.).

CATALOGUE 83

Recto:Night

Ve r so: Grotesque Decorations from Room 36 in the

Golden House of Nero

WA.OA 977 ; Blayney Brown, no. 1814

Dimensions: 170 × 262 mm, irregular

Medium

Recto: Black chalk, and brownish-yellow wash over black

chalk.

Ve r so: Pen and ink.

Condition

On a double-sided solid museum mount with bevel inlay

attached at verso.

Recto: There is overall surface dirt and various stains.

There is minor surface abrasion overall. There are vari-

ous black and brown accretions in the area between the

figure’s breasts. The sheet has a light vertical fold line left

of centre.

Ve r so: There is light overall discolouration and various

local stains and shiny accretions in the top left corner and

top centre. Also visible is an old tear repair at the top of

the fold.