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Object Type
print
Museum number
1850,0612.282
Title
Series:
The Seven Liberal Arts
Description
Plate 5: Music; reverse copy after Sebald Beham (Pauli 127); winged, whole-length female figure, wearing a laurel wreath, standing in profile to right, playing an organ; a lute on the ground; from a series of seven engravings. Engraving on discoloured paper
Producer name
After:
Sebald Beham
School/style
German
Production date
1531-1600
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
90 millimetres
(Excl. c. 5mm margin)
Width:
55 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
BM also has an impression of Beham's design, see 1868,0822.273. See also Curatorial Comment for 1868,0822.269.
Bibliographic references
Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte
(127 a)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(127 Copy)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(VIII.164.125)
(Cf.)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
arts and sciences
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Bousfield
Acquisition date
1850
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1850,0612.282