drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1841,1211.8.11
Description: Mary of Cleves, full-length facing front, and Anna of Hungary, half-length in three-quarter view to left, respectively in early fifteenth-century Burgundian and sixteenth-century German court dress; the first figure after Antonio de Succa; from Rubens' Costume Book Pen and brown ink
Producer name: Drawn by: Peter Paul Rubens; After: Antonio de Succa
School/style
Production date: 1609-1612
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 204 millimetres (max, irregularly cut); Width: 217 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The figure at left copied from Antonio de Succa's 'Mémoriaux'. For comment see 1841,1211.8.1.
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (119 (12)); Corpus Rubenianum XXIV / The Costume Book (12)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1965, BM, Masterpieces of the Print Room, (no cat.) 2009/10 Nov-Jan BM, P&D, 'Rubens Drawings' (no cat.)
Subjects: flemish costume; german costume
Associated names: Representation of: Mary of Cleves; Representation of: Anna, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and Holy Roman Empress
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Pierre Crozat (his sale, Paris, 10.iv-13.v.1741/845); Previous owner/ex-collection: Roger de Piles
Acquisition date: 1841
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1841,1211.8.11

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