Western Art Drawings Collection

Niccolò del Abbate (1509/12 - 1571)

The Three Cardinal Virtues, 

Parker II (1956) 66

Pen and black ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white bodycolour, on buff paper.  Sheet: 370 x 260 mm

Inscribed at lower left in a later hand: Perino del Vaga

Collector's Mark:&Nbsp; : Houlditch (L. 2214), lower right; C. Rogers (L. 624), lower right; Hudson (L. 2432), lower left

Provenance:&Nbsp; : Richard Houlditch Thomas Hudson Charles Rogers

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Purchased, 1949; 

WA1949.33