drawing

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Object Type
Museum number: SL,5214.281
Description: Allegorical subject (Cloth Trade or Production); a man flailing flax at right, a woman seated spinning at left and a child reading at her knee, Minerva and a philosopher behind, a putto pouring coins from a cornucopia above into a sheet held by a woman, another figure holding a triangle, open landscape beyond; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, on brown paper
Producer name: Drawn by: Anonymous; Manner/Style of: Jan Gerritsz. van Bronckhorst (?); Manner/Style of: Werner van den Valckert (?)
School/style
Production date: 1640-1660 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 247 millimetres; Width: 322 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; textile/cloth production; reading/writing
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: SL,5214.281
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: T,10.281
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Sep 2012; Treatment: 28 Sep 2012

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