drawing

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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.971
Description: Solomon's Idolatry; at left an idol on a pedestal, Solomon kneeling on a cushion before it swinging a censer, behind him a wife, other women and buildings beyond Pen and brown ink with grey wash
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Production date: 1517-1550
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Dimensions: Height: 119 millimetres; Width: 93 millimetres
Curator's comments: Possibly a design for a small glass panel. Lit.: E. Cleland, ed., Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, New York and New Haven, 2014, fig. 190.
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Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 5.vi.1860/373 as 'Early German - Solomon's Idolatry; the rape of Europe; a servant receiving a chalice from his master &c.', 4 in the lot, bt by Thorpe £0-19-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.971
Conservation

Free entry