print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.5
- Description
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David and Bathsheba; Bathsheba sitting at the edge of a fountain surrounded by bushes, drying one foot with the other in the water, in profile to right, watched from above by David, who stands on a parapet playing a lyre; unlettered proof.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1680s (circa?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- States [recorded by Nicholas Stogdon (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database)]
(i) this state; with two small 'x's in the sky in upper right; the cloth held by Bathsheba does not cover her left leg
(ii) reworked; dark areas reinforced, drapery extended to cover area between legs
(iii) entirely reworked; water from the fountain-heads made opaque so that the leaves behind are no longer visible through it
Stogdon queried whether this was the mezzotint of David and Bathsheba by Valck after Barend Graat: one is listed by Le Blanc (no. 44), but this probably refers to the print listed in Hollstein as print no. 121 after Graat, which depicts Bathsheba receiving the letter from David.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.5