drawing
- Museum number
- 1857,0509.32
- Description
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Three studies for Orpheus; wearing sixteenth century costume, seated on a tree stump playing a lira da braccio, deer and small mammals around him
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1517-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres
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Width: 275 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Literature: A.E. Popham, 'Drawings of the Early Flemish School', London, 1926, cat.no.66; M. Friedländer, in Berliner Jahrbuch 38, p.87; L.J. Slatkes, 'Book Review', in Art Quarterly (1973), p.257 (with lit. ref. to Giorgio T. Faggin, 'La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento', 1968, fig.104).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, Netherlandish prints and drawings (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0509.32
