drawing; print study

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Object Type: drawing; print study
Museum number: Oo,9.51
Description: Design for ornament; two putti leaning forward to embrace each other, supported by scrolling acanthus leaves, with a sunflower above Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on grey-brown prepared paper
Producer name
School/style: Flemish; British
Production date: 1614-1641
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 135 millimetres; Width: 172 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For the engraving in reverse by Lucas Vorsterman see R,2.61.
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (29); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (16)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1978, BM, Gainsborough and Reynolds in the BM, no 277
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364); Previous owner/ex-collection: Nicolaes Anthoni Flinck (L.959)
Acquisition date: 1824
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Oo,9.51

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