print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1937,0802.1.58
- Title
- Series: Figurae variae
- Description
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Two back views of Terpsichore, the Muse of dance, seated on a rock by a tree and playing a harp, crowned with flowers, her head turned back to look at the viewer; one in outline only; trimmed and pasted on a sheet. c.1675-1714
Etching
- Production date
- 1675-1714 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 82 millimetres
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Width: 102 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from the series of eleven figure studies by Paul van Somer. For the whole set see 1937,0802.1.48-1937,0802.1.59.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to the department from the British Library in 1889; originally part of Hans Sloane's collection. Unidentified seal (showing a monkey?) in red wax on 1937.0802.1.1. The old British Library registration number inscribed in graphite on the title-page, at top left: "554.b.6 / 4".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0802.1.58