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• 1625/35
  Date range: 1625/35

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite

Seventeenth-Century Hand 2 (Sangallo Copyist 2)

The first of four seventeenth-century drawings on the page, similar in subject to the decorative bands drawn on the previous one, is of a soffit, and it takes the form of an elaborate guilloche band with two rows of interlocking scrolls that are separated from each other by compressed oval fields with palmettes emerging from them. The band is positioned so close to another below it (Drawing 2) that Campbell thought they were both part of the same soffit, but this is probably not the case. Both bands are depicted in the mid- sixteenth-century Codex Destailleur B in Saint Petersburg but separately and on adjacent pages. A similar soffit without the additional band also appears in the Lille sketchbook but it omits the compressed ovals.

The drawn soffit has something in common with one from the Basilica Aemilia (Lipps 2011, pp. 72–73,) but the features are so distorted that it would appear to be either a poor representation or a copy of an earlier drawing that was itself a distorted interpretation.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Raffaello da Montelupo, attr.] Lille, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille Sketchbook, fol. 17r (Lemerle 1997, pp. 308–09); [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fols 72r and 72v (Lanzarini-Martinis 2015, pp. 131–32)

Ashby 1904, p. 73
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 652–53
Census, ID 45476

Drawing

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