Descriptive Catalogue of the Drawings by the Old Masters, Forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...This interesting drawing, highly finished in parts, and indicated in outline only in others, is apparently a study for a portion of one of the Mantua cartoons now at Hampton Court. W. 10 in.; H. IOJ in. Collection (W.) 328. ANDREA MANTEGNA. Hercules And Hydra. The god, delineated in a foreshortened pose, is striking the serpent with his club. He grasps the reptile firmly by the middle with his left hand, and it is coiled round his arm. The figure is in the nude, with the exception of a mantle over the shoulders flying in the wind. Highly finished drawing with the pen, in bistre. H. 1 is in.; W. 6 in. Collections--Leon Feuchere, His de Lasalle of Paris, (R.) 329-ANDREA MANTEGNA. Composition Of Numerous Figures, apparently Christ restoring a blind man to sight. Reed pen drawing in bistre, on light brownish tinted paper. L. 10 in.; H. 6 in. Collections--Lord Spencer, Sir Thos. Lawrence, (R.) 33, ANDREA MANTEGNA. Portrait Head Of A Young Man In Profile, highly finished, (small life-size), in pen and bistre, the background washed or shaded in bistre. H. gi in.; W. 6J in. Collection--Marquis de Janze, (sold in Paris in 1866). 331-ANDREA MANTEGNA. Two Centaurs Tilting At Each Other With Lances And Shields. Finished pen drawing in bistre, the background washed with bistre, on pale brown paper. L. 13 in.; H. 8J in. Collection (R.) 332-ANDREA MANTEGNA. Portrait Head Of A Man In Profile; drawn with the point of the brush in vermilion. The personage represented appears to be betwixt sixty and seventy years of age; the features have a shrewd and penetrating yet benevolent expression; the finely formed head is partly bald, being encircled by a ring of uncombed wiry hair; the face is wrinkled, the nose large, square at the point, and somewhat...