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drawing
;
album
Object Type
drawing
album
Museum number
SL,5308.149
Description
Button with arabesque ornament, one of three small circular designs, probably for buttons, from the 'Jewellery Book'; entwined arabesques, semicircular Pen and black ink, with yellow wash
Producer name
Drawn by:
Hans Holbein the Younger
School/style
German
Swiss
British
Production date
1532-1543
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
15 millimetres
Width:
28 millimetres
Curator's comments
See also SL,5308.1-179 Rowlands 1993 LITERATURE: LB, ii, p. 340, no. 36c; Ganz, p. 62, no. 307, repr.; White, p. 568, no. 153
Bibliographic references
Rowlands 1993 / Drawings by German artists and artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: the 15thC & 16thC by Artists born before 1530
(368(c))
Ganz / Die Handzeichnungen Hans Holbein d. J. Kritischer Katalog
(307)
Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain
(36(c))
Awais-Dean 2017 / Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England
(p.14, p.42, p.138, p.141)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
jewellery
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date
1753
Acquisition notes
Transferred from the Dept. of Manuscripts to Prints + Drawings on 20 July 1860. For a history of the contents of Sloane 5308, see SL,5308.1.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
SL,5308.149
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
Add.5308.a
(Dept. of Manuscripts Mss no.)
Conservation
Treatment
: 29 Jul 1993