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Object Type
Museum number: Gg,4Q.8
Title: Object: SOL; Series: The seven Planets
Description: The Sun and its sign, seen from behind, standing in a landscape, holding a batton and stick with the sun. Engraving, slightly damaged at bottom
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Production date: 1579
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Dimensions: Height: 53 millimetres; Width: 36 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See curatorial comment for 1982-U-3275.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1955) (Wierix); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1608); Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (1439)
Location: Not on display
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Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Bagford; Previous owner/ex-collection: Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford
Acquisition date: 1814
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Gg,4Q.8
Additional IDs: Other BM number: 1982,U.3274

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