drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1836,0811.618
- Description
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A feast outside on a terrace with simply dressed people seated at tables, on the left a flight of steps is leading up to a collonaded terrace from where the food is being served, a high, sculpted fountain on the right; folio 5 from De Wael's Album
Pen and brown ink over black chalk; squared in graphite for transfer
- Production date
- 1640-1650 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 266 millimetres (album)
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Height: 214 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 289 millimetres
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Width: 386 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This drawing is part of an album with 53 drawings by Cornelis de Wael, for comment see 1836,0811.614.
Hind describes this as a companion piece to 1836,0811.616.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- There is an armorial ex-libris (Franks Bookplates, No.23283) of John Percival, pasted on the inside front cover lettered with the motto "SVB CRVCE CANTO" on a banderole and "Iohn Ld. Percival Baron of Burton,/in the County of Cork in Ireland. 1715.". Inscribed by Percival on the the first blank leaf "Bought at Antwerp 18 June 1718".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0811.618
