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drawing
;
album
Object Type
drawing
album
Museum number
1994,1001.10.71
Title
Object:
Vivit ad extremum
Series:
Gloria Crocodilus
Description
Coiled rope; emblematic miniature showing a coiled rope, lit at one of the ends at top, held by a hand at bottom; 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. Not in Julius Wilhelm Zincgref's 'Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria'. The emblem and the latin verse bear resemblance to the emblem in Claude Paradin, Devises heroïques, 1551, p. 114.
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
1995-6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
Subjects
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
1994,1001.10.71