drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1913,1231.34
Description: An elderly woman carrying a bundle on her head: drawing from an album Red chalk
Producer name: Circle/School of: Jacques Callot
School/style: French; Florentine
Production date: 1620
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 93 millimetres; Width: 51 millimetres
Curator's comments: See commentary to 1913,1231.1.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: Alfred de Pass; Donated through: Art Fund (as NACF)
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Philippe Huart (? L. 2084 stamped on one half of the Bosse print on the verso of the titlepage and on the ex-libris on the back cover of the album); Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry Reveley; Previous owner/ex-collection: Hugh Reveley; Previous owner/ex-collection: Hugh John Reveley (Sotheby's, 21.iv.1884/98 as Callot 'Views of Coasts Scenes and Strongholds, made during a voyage in the Mediterranean, on the Coast of Corsica, Sardinia, Naples, &c. executed in 1619-1620; in pen, some tinted, thirty-eight pages, from a sketch book with engraved Portrait of the artists by Abraham Bosse; most delicate and beautiful drawings of great interest' bt Hecht £3-0-0)
Acquisition date: 1913
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1913,1231.34

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