Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Drawing 1 (left column, top): Ornamental feature

Browse

  • image SM volume 115/149a

Reference number

SM volume 115/149a

Purpose

Drawing 1 (left column, top): Ornamental feature

Aspect

Part of an ornamental composition

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • c.1515
    Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink over black chalk and a single vertical stylus line at centre

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

The drawing depicts a shell on top of a lyre-shaped element incorporating a palmette flanked by lateral scrolls. Its purpose is unclear. The drawing’s style is consistent with a date of around 1515.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 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