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Object Type
Museum number: 1895,0915.1022
Description: Head of a boy and study of hands; almost to right Metalpoint on cream-prepared vellum
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1585-1592 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 69 millimetres; Width: 100 millimetres
Curator's comments: Possibly belonging to the same sketchbook as another metalpoint drawing, a study of a tobacco plant in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam (Reznicek 411). Literature: E.J.K. Reznicek, 'Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius', Utrecht, 1961, cat.no.326; Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner and Jenny Bescoby, 'Northern European Metalpoint Drawings: technical examination and analysis', London, 2016, p. 27, 43-49, 68.
Bibliographic references: Popham (D & F) 1932 / Dutch and Flemish drawings of the XV and XVI centuries (2) (as Goltzius); JCR / Descriptive Catalogue of drawings by old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (564); Reznicek 1961 / Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius (326)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.62
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Gérard Leembruggen (26.iii.1866/262); Previous owner/ex-collection: John Malcolm of Poltalloch; Previous owner/ex-collection: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel; Previous owner/ex-collection: Johan van der Marck Aegidiuszoon
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0915.1022
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