drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- Gg,2.357
- Description
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Allegorical design with two female figures, representing Morality and Purity of Heart, who are victorious over the love of the world and its riches, shown as a blindfolded man and child reaching towards a crown and money, at the right a lion reclining; a preparatory drawing for 'La Philosophie morale divisée en six parties' by Louis de Lesclache, Paris 1655
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1655
- Dimensions
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Height: 146 millimetres
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Width: 93 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the related print see IFF 569
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1769
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Gg,2.357
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FAWK,ADD.41