AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA | St. Peter and St. John healing a cripple at the gate of the temple
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AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA
St. Peter and St. John healing a cripple at the gate of the temple
Pen and brown ink, heightened with white, on prepared paper;
bears numbering, lower right, on the album page: 17
239 by 164 mm (drawing)
629 by 479 mm (mount)
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Formerly in a portfolio inscribed 'S.2' with the bookplate of Edward, Earl of Powis (Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis of the third creation (1754-1839)),
thence by inheritance to his second son, Robert Henry Clive (1789-1854), of Oakly Park, Shropshire, M.P. for South Shropshire,
thence by descent to Robert Windsor-Clive (1824-1859) and his son Robert George, Baron Windsor (1859-1923), for whom the earldom of Plymouth was revived in 1905,
thence by descent
B. Davidson, "The Cope Embroideries Designed for Paul III by Perino del Vaga", Master Drawings, vol. XXVIII, no.3 (1990), p.141, under no. 15 (as a copy after the Bonasone print)
The drawing by Perino for the composition, in the other direction, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see Davidson, op.cit., figs. 1, 2). This drawing is in the same direction as a print by Bonasone.