drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1841,1211.8.25
Description: Four women and seven men in two rows, half-length to full-length in fifteenth-century costumes; from Rubens' Costume Book Pen and brown ink
Producer name: Drawn by: Peter Paul Rubens
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1609-1612
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 417 millimetres (max, irregularly cut); Width: 312 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Copied from an unknown source. 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 (26)); Corpus Rubenianum XXIV / The Costume Book (26); Logan 2021 / The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens: a critical catalogue (220)
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: costume/clothing
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry George Bohn
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: 1841,1211.8.25

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