drawing; album

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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
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Production date: 1634
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Dimensions: Height: 83 millimetres (sheet); Width: 92 millimetres
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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.)
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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

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