print
- Museum number
- 1872,0511.934
- Title
- Series: Twelve Heads from Rubens
- Description
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Plate 8: Detail from 'Minerva protecting Peace against War'; bust of one of the children of Sir Balthasar Gerbier, directed to left but looking at the viewer; after a study by Peter Paul Rubens, then in the possession of R D Chantrell. 1830
Lithograph on chine collé
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres (image)
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Width: 161 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a study of the painting by Rubens in the National Gallery, London, inv.no.46 (Rooses 825). The sitter was formerly identified as one of Ruben's daughters.
See 1886,1012.380 and 1890,0225.2.8 for further impressions.
This is one of the prints in the series 'Twelve Heads from Rubens'. The series consists of the twelve lithographs by Davis, all of which are heads after Rubens's series of portfolios called 'The Heads'. Chantrell acquired the Rubens's series in Antwerp in circa 1828-9. Davis made the prints after his collection which was published in 1830 by Cock and Inchbold. There is a complete bound volume of the series in the Department of the Prints and Drawings, registration numbers 1890,0225.2.1-12, located in 165.b.25. The title-page reads: "Twelve heads, / from the / original studies by Rubens, / in the possession of R. D. Chantrell, Esq. / drawn on stone, / by J. Scarlett Davis. / London: Charles Frederick Cock, 21, Fleet Street; / and / Thomas Inchbold, Leeds. / 1830." The volume is dedicated to Sir Thomas Lawrence by Davis. It also includes the preface and description of the heads depicted.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,0511.934