drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.996
- Description
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Coat of arms of Junker Hans Jakob zu Rhein, flanked by Charity and Patience, design for a glass painting; above, Judith with the head of Holofernes, below two putti supporting a plaque. 1588
Pen and black ink, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1588
- Dimensions
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Height: 385 millimetres
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Width: 296 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See: Paul Leonard Ganz, Die Basler Glasmaler der Spätrenaissance und der Barockzeit, Basel/Stuttgart, 1966, p.71 (with the wrong illustration).
Some 200 drawings by Plepp survive, mostly designs for domestic glass-paintings, like the present example. Hans Jakob zu Rhein (c.1573 - 1629) was married in 1589, the year after the drawing was made, and the production of this design may have been connected with that event.
Plepp worked in Basel, Zurich and Bern.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996-7 Sept-Jan, BM Malcolm Collection
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.996
