drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1994,1001.10.49
Title: Object: Nisi infundas oleum; Series: Gloria Crocodilus
Description: Study with a lamp; emblematic miniature showing a study with books and an ink pot on a table, a view of the moon at right, an oil lamp hangs from above; in a roundel; from an album of 82 leaves Watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold and silver
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Production date: 1634
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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.42 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, 42.
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1995-6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
Subjects: interior; symbol
Acquisition name
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, Scotland and Ireland (?); 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: 1994,1001.10.49

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