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Object Type
Museum number: 1877,0811.1009
Description: Allegory of Vanity; a young woman seated on an armchair at right and combing her hair, an elderly man holding a skull at left, a jester in between them; after Jacob Jordaens Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Alexander Voet II; After: Jacques Jordaens; Formerly attributed to: Jacobus Neeffs
School/style
Production date: 1650-1690
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 280 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 340 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For another impression (lower margin cut) see 1873,1213.583.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (13.II); d'Hulst 1993 / Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). I: Paintings and Tapestries; II: Drawings and Prints (B86)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; fool/jester
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev John Burleigh James (L.1425; Sotheby's London, March-May 1877 (bt through Messrs Goupil)); Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale March - May 1877/3898); Purchased through: Goupil
Acquisition date: 1877
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1877,0811.1009

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