| Pen and ink drawing with brown wash over black chalk by Raffaellino del Garbo. The Virgin on the left, surrounded by angels, points to Bernard seated on a stool with the inscription 'SCO.BERNARD' at a desk with an open book and a pen in an inkwell. A partly-visible demon, entering a doorway behind Bernard, is chained to the stool. On the ledge of the building behind Bernard is another open book and an hourglass. Bernard and the table and desk at which he is seated (except the leg) are on a separate piece of paper carefully joined to the rest. Believed to be a design for an embroidery, perhaps the centre of the back of a cope or an altar-frontal. Influenced by Filippino Lippi's panel in the Badia painted c 1480.
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