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drawing
Object Type
drawing
Museum number
1895,0915.1131
Description
A frame-maker's shop, with a customer; a gentleman in a tall hat giving his order to the frame-maker, who is standing holding a frame, his two assistants working in the background. 1646(?) Pen and brown ink, with green-blue wash
Producer name
Attributed to:
Salomon de Bray
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1646
(?)
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
72 millimetres
Width:
104 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Two other drawings of the same series, a book-shop and a picture-shop, at Amsterdam. See Hind.
Bibliographic references
Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(1)
JCR / Descriptive Catalogue of drawings by old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch
(670)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
artistic life
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Col John Wingfield Malcolm
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Saportas
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Gérard Leembruggen
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Malcolm of Poltalloch
Acquisition date
1895
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1895,0915.1131
Conservation
Treatment
: 04 Aug 1997