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Object Type
print
Museum number
1857,0228.268
Title
Series:
Costumes
Description
Plate 5: A fashionably dressed couple standing under an arch, houses in background; from a series of eight Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Jan van de Velde II
Published by:
Claes Jansz. Visscher
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1615-1641
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
133 millimetres
Width:
98 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one from a series of eight, for comment see S.5800-5807.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(163)
Franken & van der Kellen 1883 / L'oeuvre gravé de Jan van de Velde II
(72.126-133)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
costume/clothing
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Henry Graves & Co
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Edward Vernon Utterson
Acquisition date
1857
Acquisition notes
1857,0228.214 to 280 all came from the Utterson sale, but were bought by Graves on his own account, and subsequently selected from his purchases by Carpenter for the BM.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1857,0228.268