drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5219.43
- Description
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A stallion tethered to a tree; the horse seen from behind, with saddle, and bound tail; one of 179 drawings from the 1637 album
Pen and brown ink with watercolour, some black chalk
- Production date
- 1583 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres
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Width: 189 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Curator's Comment to SL,5219.1.
This is a drawn copy after a print made by Philips Galle and designed by Stradanus, see 1948,0410.4.94. It is not known who is responsible for this drawing.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- From the Sloane 5219 album ' Vischen Vogelen, Dieren, Vruchten 1637'. Hans Sloane acquired a group of '1637' albums (from the collection of Pieter Spiering, d. 1652) in the Netherlands in 1724, see A. Griffiths in 'Landmarks in Print Collecting', London, 1996, pp.21-9 and n.9). On Pieter Spiering, see Ilja M. Veldman, "Portrait of an art collector: Pieter Spiering van Silvercroon" Simiolus 38:4 (2015/16): 241ff.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5219.43
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,06.43
