print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1850,0223.302
- Title
- Series: A booke of drawinges
- Description
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Title-page: man drawing seated at desk in front of lattice window, seen in profile to left; round hat hanging on the wall to right, under books on shelf; with text within cartouche above and text below. 1650
Etching
- Production date
- 1650
- Dimensions
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Height: 113 millimetres
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Width: 75 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series of eighteen plates after Wenceslaus Hollar and Hendrick van der Borcht: 'A Booke of Drawinges Performed according to the best order for use & Beauty that is yet Extant', advertised by Peter Stent as a 'Book of Drafts of Mr Hollars and Mr Vanderbugs, 18 plates.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1997 Oct-Nov, London, Royal College of Art, 'The Quick and the Dead'
1998 Jan-Mar, Warwick, Mead Gallery, 'The Quick and the Dead'
1998 Mar-May, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 'The Quick and the Dead'
1998 Jun-Sep, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 'The Quick and the Dead'
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0223.302