drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5219.95
- Description
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Three pears and six apples, one of 179 drawings from the 1637 album
Bodycolour, heightened with white
- Production date
- 1600-1620 (fl.circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 92 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Curator's Comment to SL,5219.1. All the fruits in this drawing are copied from nos. 93 and 94, but arranged differently.
- 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,5219.95
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,06.95