Studies for grotesques

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing depicting studies for grotesques now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.303), where it is catalogued as by Giovanni da Udine. Annotated on the verso.

This drawing was previously in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence and it was then attributed to Raphael, but both Passavant and Ruland (1876) recognised it as by Giovanni da Udine. Passavant suggested the Vatican Logge as the source for these studies (both recto and verso, see RCIN 854214 for a photograph of the verso), although neither of the motifs depicted on this sheet actually occur in the Logge (see Bibliographic References).