Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
Drawing 5 (bottom right): Dolphin with a shell in its mouth emerging from a framed aperture
Browse
Reference number
SM volume 115/145e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (bottom right): Dolphin with a shell in its mouth emerging from a framed aperture
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over traces of black chalk
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The drawing appears to relate to the one at the top of the page (Drawing 2) and shows the same modern invention but viewed from in front. What is shown here is the head of a dolphin holding a scallop shell (or two shells) in its mouth with schematic waves beneath, and framed by a rectangular aperture made of stone, and it is perhaps a design for a fountain. As with all the other drawings on the sheet it dates for the second phase of the codex’s production.
Literature
Ashby 1904, pp. 70–71
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk