_Filippino Lippi_ (Florentine: 1457-1504). _See 293._
_See also_ (p. xx)
By some ascribed to Botticelli.[215] "There is an unmistakable
drawing for it in the Uffizi Collection (No. 210), which is
there ascribed to Botticelli, and which I, for one, am not at
all inclined to take away from him. My own opinion is that
there was no painter of the time who could have given so
poetically conceived a background as we have in No. 1124; the
drawing of some of the figures also speaks of itself" (Mr.
Maurice Hewlett in the _Academy_, January 9, 1892).
For two other more highly-finished pictures of the same subject also
ascribed to this master see 592 and 1033. This picture, with others
from the Hamilton Collection, was in the "Old Masters" Exhibition
of 1873. "The 'Adoration of the Magi,'" wrote Ruskin to Mr. Fairfax
Murray, "had prettiness in it, but was poor stuff."