print
- Museum number
- 1847,0723.32
- Description
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A draped woman embracing a soldier (Cleopatra and Mark Antony?), an old woman and another soldier standing beyond
Etching
- Production date
- 1650-1690
- Dimensions
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Height: 158 millimetres
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Width: 115 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This plate was formerly attributed to Francis Cleyn, then placed with the unidentified Dutch and Flemish prints. Stylistic comparison with the etchings by Gaspars allow a tentative attribution to him.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Acquisition notes
- The sheet is laid down with annotated register number 1847,0713.32. The register describes this print as 'two lovers embracing' under 1847,0723.32.
The series registered as 1847,0723.1 to 113 was purchased from W B Tiffin for £98 15s the lot. Unfortunately when the register numbers were written on the back of the prints, they were numbered either 0713 or 0723, apparently at random. The 0713 and 0723 runs dovetail together to form a complete series, though in some cases the final number is not the one given in the register. It is too late to alter so many wrong numbers, so the mistaken numbers will have to continue to serve as the register numbers, but this note has been added to each of the records in the sequence to explain the position. (AVG, 2016)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1847,0723.32