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Folio 97 and flap recto (Ashby 161): Four grotesque compositions and three helmets
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161
Purpose
Folio 97 and flap recto (Ashby 161): Four grotesque compositions and three helmets
Inscribed
[Drawing] 30 [early seventeenth-century hand]; 161
[Mount] 161
Medium and dimensions
[Drawing] (Drawing media as below) On a folded double sheet of laid paper (232x336mm), holes from stitching down centre, rounded corners at left and right, left half inlaid and right half folded to cover it (window on verso of mount)
[Verso of left half of drawing] Blank
[Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart
[Verso of mount] Window (224x160mm)
Watermark
[Drawing] Anchor in circle topped with six-pointed star (variant 3) [Mount] Fleur-de-lys in circle topped with crown (variant 2; cut at bottom of window)
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Group
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.
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Contents of Folio 97 and flap recto (Ashby 161): Four grotesque compositions and three helmets
- Drawing 1 (left half, top left): Male-headed sphinx
- Drawing 2 (left half, top right): male hybrid creature with wings
- Drawing 3 (left half, bottom): Putto with hybrid creature
- Drawing 4 (right half, top left): Winged zoomorphic horse
- Drawing 5 (right half, top right): Elaborate helmet with plume of stylised feathers
- Drawing 6 (right half, centre): Elaborate helmet surmounted by a satyr
- Drawing 7 (right half, bottom right): Elaborate helmet surmounted by a winged putto playing a pipe