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Object Type
print
Museum number
1864,0611.79
Description
Portrait of Ernest, Count of Mansfeld and his wife Dorothea of Solms. Two oval portraits in profile facing each other in an ornamented surround with two coats of arms at top corners; second state with address in lower centre Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Cornelis Massijs
Published by:
Mathias Quad
School/style
Netherlandish
Production date
1550
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
173 millimetres
Width:
130 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Two other impressions in the BM: 1848,0212.82 and 1873,0809.638. Dated by Jan Van Der Stock to c. 1550.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(169.II)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(IX.116.57)
Van Der Stock 1985 / Cornelis Matsys 1510/11-1556/57, oeuvre graphique
(98.II)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Ernest von Mansfeld
Portrait of:
Dorothea von Solms
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Robert Cook
Purchased through:
Sotheby's
(6-7.vi.1864/20)
Purchased through:
Edward Daniell
Acquisition date
1864
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1864,0611.79