Landscape on a musical staff

Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco (1606-1680)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1626-1799
Height:
15.4 cm  (6 1/16 in.)
Width:
26.3 cm  (10 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Place of creation:
Italia

Additional titles

The two men seated under tree on hillside

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1922.3347]

Description

Drawn on a piece of paper ruled with nine five-line staves, with fragments of musical notation. The staves and the notation are drawn with a different pen and ink from that used for the drawing.

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 4 (68dr74). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

2017