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Crew Abandoning Ship (recto) Sketches of Corinthian Columns (verso)

Lazzaro TavaroneLinkedCulture matchlcp-b47ba075694f

Date: c. 1600
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
Culture: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 84623

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This sheet presents a series of studies of ships in different action scenes. In the upper left, Tavarone rendered a ship in full sail with the whole crew depicted. To the right, fainter strokes render the outlines of other vessels mid-sail. In the sheet’s dramatic lower register, a vessel lilts far on its right side, while sailors bend under the weight of the items they carry off board the sinking ship. For the small, mercantile city-state of Genoa, shipwrecks were events of commercial and political consequence. They served as a reminder of the risky and uncertain fortunes of a society built on maritime trade.

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Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Provenance: Unknown Italian collector, early-mid nineteenth-century [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

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