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Object Type
print
Museum number
R,1a.46
Title
Object:
Scelte A Bolswart
Series:
Icones Principum Virorum
Description
Portrait of Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, half-length, turned slightly to the right, but looking towards the viewer, wearing a ruff, buttoned doublet and cloak, with short hair, moustache and beard, his left hand hanging down in the fold of his cloak in front of his abdomen, his right arm concealed by the cloak; third state with an entirely different head, title and production details added; after van Dyck Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Adriaen Lommelin
After:
Anthony van Dyck
Published by:
Gillis Hendricx
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1640-1655
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
280 millimetres
Width:
200 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For an impression of the first state and comment see R,1a.135.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(113.III)
(Van Dyck)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(40)
(Lommelin)
Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1991 / L'Iconographie d'Antoine Van Dyck, Catalogue raisonné
(106.III)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(probably)
Acquisition date
1799
Acquisition notes
for the argument that this probably comes from Cracherode, see R,1a.1
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
R,1a.46