drawing; plan

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Object Type: drawing; plan
Museum number: SL,5214.15
Description: Plan of the settlement of Whitby near Tangier; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings. c.1669 Pen and brown ink, with brown and blue wash
Producer name
School/style: British; Bohemian
Production date: 1669 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 297 millimetres; Width: 353 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: While believing the plan itself to be Hollar's work, Volrábová has suggested that the legend at the left may be a later addition. Lit.: S. Turner, 'Wenceslaus Hollar and Tangier in 1669', in A. Bubenik and A. Thackray eds, 'Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar', London, 2016, pp. 187-9, fig. 17
Bibliographic references: Volrábová 2017 / Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677): Drawings (VI/28); Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries (41); Sprinzels 1938 / Wenceslaus Hollar and his drawings (389); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (36)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1960, BM, Sloane Drawings, (no cat.)
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Tangier
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt-Gen William Skinner; Previous owner/ex-collection: J Skinner; Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt Monier Skinner
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: SL,5214.15
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: T,10.15

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