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This drawing is a skillful and meticulous copy of the left-hand section of the original frieze-like composition. 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Ionides","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Copy after Andrea Mantegna, drawing of battle between nude mounted warriors","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lambert, Susan. <u>Drawing: Technique & Purpose</u>. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981. p.26."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ward-Jackson, Peter, <u>Italian Drawings. Volume I. 14th-16th century</u>,  London, 1979, p. 19\r\n\r\nThe following is the full text of the entry:\r\n\r\n<i>copy after</i> \r\nMANTEGNA, ANDREA\r\n\r\n13\r\nEnvy inciting the marine gods to fight Pen and ink\r\n11 1/8 x 16 1/2 (283 x 420) \tCAI.406 \r\n\r\nPROVENANCE Unidentified mark C \r\n(Lugt 474); Ionides Bequest 1900 (Lugt 488) \r\n\r\nLITERATURE <i>Ionides Catalogue</i>, p. 12 (attributed to Mantegna) \r\n\r\nAfter the engraving by Mantegna (Bartsch 13, no. 18): an unusually accurate and sensitively drawn copy, of exactly the same size as the original, probably contemporary. The copyist follows the original line by line, except in the hatching, where his lines are finer and closer together. Another similar drawing connected with the same engraving, less finely shaded, is at Chatsworth and is believed by some authorities to be Mantegna's design for the engraving (reproduced in E. Tietze-Conrat, <i>Mantegna</i>, 1955, pl. 99; q.v. for bibliography). 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