The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 10, 2023

Design for a Crozier

mid 1500s

Luzio Romano

(Italian, active 1528–75)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; pricked (bottom half)

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, laid down on two sheets (joined) of cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 38.8 x 23.2 cm (15 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 43.4 x 26.5 cm (17 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.588

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper right, in brown ink: 51 ; RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in black chalk(?): 79 ; lower right, in graphite: [erased] ; lower right, in graphite: 19 [underlined] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower right, in graphite: A 3106

Provenance
[FitzRoy Carrington]
Exhibition history

CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, "with small changes").

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11, 1949- ).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Feb. 12-May. 20, 1948).

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

CMA, Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture (July 11-Sep. 3. 1934).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Feb. 24-Mar. 17, 1932).

CMA, "An Exhibition of Drawings," cma Bulletin 11 (1924), p. 141.

Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): December 18, 2013 - June 23, 2014.

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.588