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Leaf from a Universal Chronicle: eight famous men
(c. 1440-1470)
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and watercolour on parchment
- Measurements
- 31.4 × 20.5 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- (Naples), Italy
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Manion 2005, pp. 426-30
- Inscription
- inscribed in pen and brown ink above and below u.l. figure: pirrus filius achillis / fuit anno (MDCCLXXXVIIJ)
inscribed in pen and brown ink above and below u.c. figure: Ascanius condidit albania / fuit predicto t(em)pore
inscribed in pen and brown ink above, on scroll, and below u.r figure.: Samuel (...illeg.) / Samuel propheta / ecce unxit te / d(omin)us super her(editatem) / suam in principem / fuit predicto t(em)pore
inscribed in pen and brown ink above and below c.l. figure: Euristeus pri mus Rex / Lacedemo nie / fuit anno (MVIIJXXX)
inscribed in pen and brown ink above and below c. figure: Codrus fecit se occid(ere) / pro sa lute populi / fuit t(em)pore Samuelis
inscribed in pen and brown ink above, beside and below c.r. figure: Alethes primus Rex / Cor inthi. / Quarta / . Etas . / fuit t(em)pore Samuelis
inscribed in pen and brown ink above, beside and below l.l. figure: David Rex / David / Golias / Goliath / fuit anno (MDCCCLXXXVII)
inscribed in pen and brown ink above, beside and below l.r. figure: Absolom / Ab(solom) (incomplete) / fuit hox t(em)pore . - Accession Number
- 1663-5
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1966
Public domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- History and Legend Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- armour (protective wear) men (male humans) noblemen robes (main garments)
