drawing

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Object Type
Museum number: 1895,0915.1234
Description: Peasants quarrelling in an inn, after Adriaen van Ostade; the table (a board over a tub) upturned, a man at left rising from his chair with a knife in his hand, a woman holding him back, a man at right raising a club and held back by another woman, two figures leaving by the door behind and a man fallen from his chair in the foreground Pen and brown ink with grey wash Verso: Slight figure sketches (laid down) Pen and ink and black chalk
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Production date: 1638-1646 (c.)
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Dimensions: Height: 166 millimetres; Width: 207 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (74) (as Copy); Schnackenburg 1981 / Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Gesamtdarstellung mit Werkkatalogen (31); JCR / Descriptive Catalogue of drawings by old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (765)
Location: Not on display
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0915.1234

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