The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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APPENDIX 1. DRAWINGS IN WILLIAM YOUNG OTTLEY’S SALES 399

mentioned in the preface to Condivi, Life of Michelangelo,
published in 1746 ,page xviii. This collection was sold and
dispersed about 1765 ,and with others purchased of the
Cav. Cavaceppi, 1792 – 3 ,bytheir present proprietor.
£ 6. 10. 0
826.One – a Pieta, a study by M. Angelo, for the pic-
ture painted by Sebastiano del Piombo, in the church of St
Francis, at Viterbo – black chalk.capital.See Vasari.
£ 11. 0. 0
827.One – a fine study for the upper part of the holy family,
in the Palazzo Buonarroti at Florence – one of his last works –
free pen and wash. Engraved in the Etruria Pittrice.
£ 5. 0. 0
828.One – the figure of Christ naked for the flagel-
lation painted by Sebastiano del Piombo – black chalk,
stumped and heightened – very fine. From the Cicciaporci
collection.
£ 10. 0. 0
829.One – a woman with a child on her knee – the original
design for one of the most celebrated groups in the vault of
the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican – black chalk on tinted
paper, heightened. Engraved in Mr Ottley’s Italian School
of Design.
£ 12. 12. 0

Thirteenth Day (pp. 129–30)
1500.Two–agroup in the Sistine Chapel, after Michael
Angelo, one a damned head, both red chalk, stumped.
£ 0. 5. 0
1501.One – naked females sitting, one holding a child, in
the same manner – very fine. From Lamberto Gori’s collec-
tion at Florence.
£ 14. 0. 0
1 502.One – the design for the figure of the Madonna in
the Last Judgement – black chalk.capital.From the same
collection.
£ 9. 0. 0
1503.One – the Virgin and Child with St. Elizabeth, sitting
by,aprodigiously fine group, free pen and wash, heightened.
most capital.From the same collection.
£ 17. 5. 0
1504.Two,on one leaf – three naked figures carrying a
dead body – stumped – black chalk – fine; and two sketches
of a figure for the last judgment – black chalk. From the
Cicciaporci collection.
£ 5. 7. 6

Fourteenth Day (p. 137)
1586.One – a Madonna and child – fine pen – curious.
One of Michel Angelo’s earliest performances.
£ 0. 10. 6

1 587.Twoblack chalk studies on one leaf – the Annun-
ciation, with a specimen of his writing, from the Ciccia-
porci collection, and a dog lying in the midst of flames,
an emblematic design. From the Buonarroti collection at
Florence.
£ 10. 10. 0
1 588.One – a leaf of pen studies – head of a warrior, etc.,
veryfine. P. L. – in his early manner.
£ 9. 15. 0
1589.One – a leaf containing four designs – a pen sketch
of a draped figure turning over the leaves of a book from
nature, which appears to have given him the idea for hissybil
erithraeain the Sistine chapel, and three small studies of
heads, two of them in pen, the other black chalk, two sitting
figures sketched from nature on the back – pen and wash.
£ 4. 4. 0
1590.One – a back figure, naked, a study for one of the
devils in the Last Judgment – black chalk – very fine. From
L. Gori’s collection.
£ 5. 10. 0
1591.One – Christ on the cross, two angels lamenting on
each side of him in the clouds–ahighly finished design –
black chalk.capital.Made by him for the Marchesa di
Pescara (See Vasari) formerly in the King of Naples col-
lection at Capo di Monti.
£ 6. 16. 6
1 592.Twofinely drawn male figures, standing, one of them
afirstthought for his colossal statue of David – mostly pen.

Fifteenth Day (p. 145)
1677 .One, a dream of Michael Angelo, relating to the inqui-
etudes which he suffered in the latter years of his life from
those employed with him in the fabric of St Peter’s – it is
thus inscribed in his own hand: Sogni fatti a di 16 di Aprile
15 6 0la notte della domenica seconda doppo pasqua – six
figures in spirited pen – very curious.
£?
16 78.One–asketch for his own monument; at the bottom
the rivers Arno and Tyber, with the representations of the
Lorenzian library and the church of St Peter’s, his chief works
in architecture; the compartment in the centre represents
Michael Angelo, when a boy, received by the Arts into the
Garden of Lorenzo de Medici, where he began by designing
from the remains of ancient sculpture, on either side the
guardian genius of Buonarroti triumphing over Envy and
overDeath; above his sarcophagus appears the figure of Fame
sounding his praises, with three trumpets, as a sculptor, a
painter and an architect – fine pen.most interesting.
£ 6 / 0 ?. 10. 6
16 79.Three,ononeleaf–afirstthought for the Sybilla
Lybica in the Sistine Chapel – fine pen; a beautiful head, red
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