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drawing
;
album
Object Type
drawing
album
Museum number
1994,1001.10.37
Title
Object:
Agitas agitaris at ipse
Series:
Gloria Crocodilus
Description
Dog chasing a hare; emblematic miniature showing a dog chasing a hare in a hilly landscape, both running towards left; in a roundel; from an album of 82 leaves Watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold
Producer name
Drawn by:
Jacob Hoefnagel
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1634
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
83 millimetres
(sheet)
Width:
92 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For comment on the album see 1994,1001.10.8. Copied from no.7 of the 100 engravings by Matthäus Merian I in Julius Wilhelm Zincgref's 'Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria', first published by Johann Theodor de Bry in Frankfurt, 1619 (L.H. Wüthrich, 'Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d.Ae', II, Basle, 1972, no. 107, 59). See Hollstein German XXVIA, 655b, 7.
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
1995-6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
Subjects
hunting/shooting
symbol
Acquisition name
Donated by:
HM Government
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall
(estate of)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Godefridus Crell
(Prussia)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Charles II, King of England
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Prince of Orange
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Princess of Orange
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Albertina, Princess of Orange
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Princess of Taranto
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Elizabeth Yorke
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey and 5th Baron Lucas
Acquisition date
1994
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1994,1001.10.37