The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 6 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 81

CATALOGUE 6

ACavalryman on Horseback Throwing a Javelin and

Other Sketches

184 6. 41 ;R. 17 ;P.II 295 ;Corpus 39

Dimensions: 190 × 258 mm

Watermark: Robinson Appendix no. 4. Roberts Cross

B.This watermark is no longer readily visible since the

sheet has been laid down. The same watermark is found

on Cat. 7.

Medium

Pen and brown ink with stylus indentation, soft black

chalk.

Condition

The upper edge is partially torn with an additional strip

repair and a repaired tear. The outer margins are wrinkled

and discoloured. There is some abrasion, foxing, and dis-

colouration, with black accretions and some surface dirt.

The verso is not visible.

Description and Transcriptions

A.A structural sketch of a man’s back, in pen. This might

be related to D or to H.

B.Above, covered by E:Amis, and, immediately below

this,ing(?)

C.Amis. ami sarebbe,inMichelangelo’s hand

D. Ahorseman charging from left to right, probably

throwing a javelin.

E.Outlines of an opposing cavalryman (in stylus, visible

only in raking light).

It is probable that D and E were the first drawings to be made

on this page.

With the left edge as base

F( 1 ). A horse, outlined in left profile, its front legs rising,

the head turned back.

F( 2 ). F( 1 ) altered to convey a staggering movement.

G.Erased, above F, probably the sketch of a figure, seen

from back.

With the right edge as base