print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- Qq,6B.1
- Title
- Series: Views of Middachten Castle
- Description
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Frontispiece with a large pedestal at centre, decorated with coat of arms and topped by a flower vase, surrounded by putti and other mythological figures including Fame and Mars; a river-god in lower left; numbered 1-12 within composition; frontispiece to a series of twenty-one plates showing views of the Middachten Castle in De Steeg in Gelderland
Etching
- Production date
- 1725-1731
- Dimensions
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Height: 164 millimetres
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Width: 203 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the frontispiece to a series of twenty-one numbered plates showing the Castle of Middachten in De Steeg in Gelderland. For a complete set see 1979,U.458-479. This series was probably made on the occasion of the redevelopment of the gardens (finished around 1725).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- For comment on the likely provenance from Sloane, see Qq,6A.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Qq,6B.1
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1979,U.458