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drawing
Object Type
drawing
Museum number
1874,0808.28
Description
Studies of figures from a picture, perhaps of Jacob and Rachel at the Well; from left to right, a youth holding a spear over his right shoulder, a man partially draped, pointing with his right hand, his left hand holding a staff (?), a woman in a turban and loose tunic with a pitcher, woman with a basket on her back, below, the head, shoulders and left arm of a man seen from behind Brush drawing in brown, heightened with white, on oiled brown-toned paper
Producer name
Drawn by:
Simon Du Bois
School/style
British
Dutch
Production date
1632-1708
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
111 millimetres
Width:
142 millimetres
Curator's comments
Mounted with 1874,0808.136
Bibliographic references
Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries
(1)
Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain
(1(b))
Location
Not on display
Subjects
old testament
(?)
Associated names
Representation of:
Jacob
(?)
Representation of:
Rachel
(?)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Hugh Howard
Acquisition date
1874
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1874,0808.28