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drawing, sketch-book
Description
English: Aspertini sketch-book (so-called London I): 6th opening


left (1898,1123.3(6) verso) and right-hand page (1898,1123.3(7) recto) with naval combat c. 1535


Pen and brown ink, small touches of white heightening, on vellum prepared with two shades of brown wash
Date between 1532 and 1535
date QS:P571,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 184 millimetres (each page)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1898,1123.3.6
Notes

The image derives from a sarcophagus fragment today in Venice (Bober-Rubinstein 1986, no. 147,p.182-3; see www.census.de, ID 25993). Aspertini is faithful in reproducing the main elements of the composition, although he elaborates details, fills the ships with invented figures, and contributes an extra ship at the right, evidently based on the crossing of the Danube as it appears on scene XXXIV, 83-87 of Trajan's Column (K. Lehmann-Hartleben, 'Die Trajanssäule', Berlin and Leipzig,, 1926 and Settis et al, 'La colonna Traiana', Turin, 1988, nos.43-5). The same subject reoccurs on 1898,1123.3.24 (see entry). For other sheets with scenes from Trajan's Column see 1898,1123.3.2, 1898,1123.3.8,1898,1123.3.10,1898,1123.3.23-25,1898,1123.3.27-34, 1898,1123.3.41 [Bober 5v-6, 7v-8, 9v-10, 22v-25, 26v-35, 41v-42] and Codex Wolfegg ff. 9, 9v, 18v-19 (base), 22v, 37v-38, 38v-39 (see G. Schweikhart, 'Der Wolfegg Codex. Zeichnungen nach der Antike von Amico Aspertini', London, 1986). For general comments on Aspertini and Trajan's Column see Bober 1957, pp. 30-2, Agosti-Farinella 1984, pp. 403-6 and Settis, cit., pp. 556-61, 572-4.

Lit: P.P. Bober, 'Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini. Sketchbooks in the British Museum', London, 1957, ff. 5v-6, pp. 13 and 53; G. Agosti-V. Farinella, 'Calore del marmo. Pratica e Tipologia delle deduzioni iconografiche', in "Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana", a cura di S. Settis, I, 'L'uso dei classici', Turin, 1984, p. 406, n.11; P.P. Bober-R. Rubinstein, 'Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture', New York, 1986, under no. 147.


For images of the codex Wolfegg see www.census.de, ID 60826
For a general introduction to the sketchbook see 1898,1123.3.1
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1898-1123-3-6
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