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Museum number: Ff,4.110
Description: Samson and the Lion; turned to left, forcing the lion's jaw apart with both his hands, his left foot crushing down on the lion's back Black chalk, touched with red and with grey-brown wash, sheet made up at top and bottom
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Production date: 1592-1640
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Dimensions: Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 413 millimetres
Curator's comments: An oil sketch of the same subject is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Rooses 113); the painting is now lost, formerly in Spain (Rooses 114). The subject was engraved in an upright form by Frans van de Wyngaerde (for comment see R,3.16) and by Erasmus Quellinus (for comment see S.5324).
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (5); Corpus Rubenianum III / Rubens. The Old Testament (26) (copy 3)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Ff,4.110

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