print
- Museum number
- 1951,1120.5
- Description
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A goldsmith's workshop, with master and two apprentices sitting around a table, an apprentice turning a winch, and another standing next to the oven, holding a pair of tongs. August 1576
Engraving
- Production date
- 1576
- Dimensions
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Height: 85 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 120 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to 1863,1114.778; the figures of the master and the apprentice standing next to him are, allegedly, portraits of Etienne Delaune and his son Jean.
Lit.: Elizabeth Goldring, 'Nicholas Hilliard: life of an artist' (London, Yale University Press, 2019), fig. 19.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1951,1120.5
