Benedict Nicolson Postcard Collection

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MS. 24007

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Postcards and greetings cards depicting works of art, mainly received by Nicolson. The works comprise:

'Siena - Cattedrale, Pinturicchio'
'Assisi - Basilica di S. Francesco, P. Lorenzetti'
'Ruhe auf der Flucht, Adam Elsheimer'
'Ritratto d'uomo in nero, Antonello da Messina'
'Firenze - Autoritratto, Domenichino'
'Firenze - The Virgin's Annunciation and the Adoration of the three Magi, B.Angelico'
'Venezia - Basilica di S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Angeli e quattro Santi'
'Napoli - Ritratto di G.Clovio, El Greco'
'Siena - Nativity, Francesco di Giorgio Martini'
'Worcester, [Massachusetts] - Parable of the Sowing of the Tares, Domenico Feti'
'Brescia - La Cena in Casa del Fariseo, Moretto da Brescia'
'Washington, D.C. - The Virgin and Child with the Cat, Rembrandt'
'Firenze - Autoritratto, Pontormo'
'Besançon - Les Enfers, Desiderio'
'Henfield Place - Holy Family, Beccafumi'
'London - Sibilla, Guido Reni'
'Mantova - L'Angelo, S. Tommaso'
'Bologna - S. Antonio, Sirani Elisabetta'
'Stockholm - Claudius Civilis avfordrar bataverna ed att resa sig mot romarna, Rembrandt'
'Death of S. Peter Martyr, Giovanni Bellini'
'Vicenza - Stanza delle Scene Cinesi, G.B. Tiepolo'
'Castiglione Olona - Particolare del Battesimo di Gesù, Masolino'
'Venezia - Caput Canalis et Ingressus in Urbem, Urbis Venetiarum ex Antonii Canal'
'National Gallery [London] - Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Bronzino'
'G[alleria] Borghese, Sibilla Cumana, [Domenichino]'
'Washington, D.C. - Quintilla Fischieri, Baroccio'
'Louvre - La Vergine Col Figlio, A. Baldovinetti'
'Arezzo - Chiesa di S. Francesco, L'incontro della Regina Saba con Salomone, Piero della Francesca'
'Perugia - Pinac Vanucci, Un Miracolo di S. Bernardino, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo'
'Bruxelles - [Portrait of the Artist's Daughter], Rubens'
'Daphni - Le Christ Pantocator [mosaic]'
'[Vienna] - Szene aus dem alten Venedig, Giorgione'
'Ashmolean Museum, [Oxford] - The Israelites gathering the Manna, Tiepolo'
'Christ Church, Oxford - The Crucifixion, Giovanni di Paolo'
'Venezia - Monumento Colleoni del Verrocchio'
'Villa di Zianigo - Passeggiata a Tre, Tiepolo
'Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi - Le Venere di Urbino, Titian'
'Hamburg - Engelstudien, Fra Bartolomeo'
'Firenze, Chiesa di S. Maria Novella - La nascita di S. Giovanni, Ghirlandaio
'Siena, Palazzo Pubblico - La Pace, Lorenzetti'
'Daphni - Les Rameaux [mosaic]'
'Nea Moni, Chios - Jesus Christ [mosaic]'
'Roma - Autoritratto di Michelangelo
'Ashmolean Museum, [Oxford] - Head of a woman in a turban, Michelangelo'
'British Museum - Madonna and Child with an Angel, Mantegna'
'Hampton Court Palace - Corselet Bearers, Mantegna'
'Lugano, Chiesa degli Angeli - La Crocefissione, B. Luini'
'St. Bartholomew's Church, Orford, Suffolk - Holy Family with St. John the Baptist and Donor, B. Luini
'[Venice] - La Polenta, B. Longhi'
'Bergamo - Madonna col Bambino, Bellini'
Portrait of a young man
'Portrait of a Lady, Tiepolo'
'Milan - Beatrice d'Este, A. di Predis'
'Washington - Portrait of a Youth, G. Boltraffio'
'National Gallery [London] - The Nativity (detail), Botticelli'
'National Gallery [London] - The Angel Raphael and Tobias, School of Verrocchio'
'National Gallery [London] - Adoration of the Magi (detail), Botticelli'
'[Hermitage, Saint Petersburg] - The Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt'
'National Gallery, London - The Nativity (detail), Piero della Francesca
'Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - Vrouw met klein kind op den arm, Rembrandt?'
'Mantova, Palazzo del The, Sala dei Giganti - Giganti che cadono fulminati sotto una rupe, G. Romano'
'National Gallery [London] - Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, El Greco'
'[New York], Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Annunciation, anonymous northern French artist'
'Louvre - [Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist (detail)], Botticelli'

Dates

Creation: 1935-1968 and n.d. [c.1947-1970]

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

English
Italian

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. 24007].

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Shelfmark:

MS. 24007

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 24007

Additional Description

Abstract

Postcards of works of art collected by Benedict Nicolson (1914-1979).

Biographical / Historical

Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978) attended Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was appointed Deputy Surveyor of the King's Pictures in 1939. From 1947 he edited The Burlington Magazine.