Italian School

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Italian School
16th century
Left Arm, and Mathematical Computations
ca. 1500
Pen and brown ink on paper; verso: mathematical computations, in pen and brown ink.
5 1/4 x 1 15/16 inches (133 x 49 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1982.23

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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed with numerical computations on both sides of the sheet, in pen and brown ink.

Provenance: 
Possibly Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (Lugt 2094) ; Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745), London (Lugt 2184); Ferruccio Asta, Venice (according to Scholz records and fragment of collector's mark in blue on recto, Lugt Suppl. 116a), from whom purchased in 1950 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
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Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Asta, Ferruccio, 1900-1952, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Selected references: Fellows Report 1984, 266 (as Venetian School, ca. 1460-1500).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 266 (as Venetian School, ca. 1460-1500).

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