The Southampton Album: A Newly Discovered Collection of Drawings by Francis Cleyn the Elder and His Associates

• Autores: David Howarth
• Localización: Master drawings, ISSN 0025-5025, Vol. 49, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 435-478
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the Hartley Manuscript (MS.) 292, a 17th-century album of drawings in the Special Collections at Southampton University, which contains many drawings by Francis Cleyn the Elder, also known as "Clein." The author offers biographical information on Cleyn, who moved to England from Denmark in 1623 and worked at the Mortlake Tapestry Works. The author describes types of drawings in the manuscript including designs for tapestries, preparatory studies for portraits, and figure studies. Specific topics addressed include the condition and provenance of the manuscript, drawings in the manuscript that relate to Mortlake tapestries, the attribution of some drawings in the manuscript to painter Henry Gibbs, and what the manuscript reveals about early modern England.