drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5217.408
- Description
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Amnon ravishing Tamar, from a series of four illustrations (2 Samuel, ch.XIII), one of 425 drawings from the 1637 album; Amnon in bed at r, seizing Tamar, a chair and table at left with food and drink laid on it, stairs behind
Pen and brown ink, and grey-brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), over black chalk, on light grey-brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1588-1633 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 268 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Curators Comment for SL,5217.1. The drawings may have been intended to be engraved (see Popham). In style and technique they closely resemble Martin de Vos's designs for illustrations.
- 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,5217.408
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: II,06.408