drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5217.383
- Description
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The meeting of Jacob and Esau, one of 425 drawings from the 1637 album; the two brothers embracing in the foreground, at right a group of men with spears and swords, at left two women, sheep and camels
Pen and grey ink, and grey-brown wash
- Production date
- 1570-1580 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres
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Width: 164 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Curators Comment for SL,5217.1. Popham says: 'Not by Bolten. Probably Dutch, about 1570 or 80, in a style suggesting a follower of Cornelis Teunissen.'
Watermark: a crowned shield with a fleur-de-lys and the initials 'W.R.' like Briquet 7210.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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See SL.5217-1
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- For a note on the provenance of the album see R, pp.xi-xiv; Ilja M. Veldman, "Portrait of an art collector: Pieter Spiering van Silvercroon" Simiolus 38:4 (2015/16): 244. Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5217.383
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: II,06.383