print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.3157
- Title
- Series: The Set of the Dogs
- Description
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Title-page with title written on a large pedestal ornamented with garlands and two Sphinges in the centre, a tree to the left, two dogs wearing leashes sitting in front of the pedestal to the right, one of the dogs looking at a rabbit in the lower left corner; frontispiece to a series of seven prints showing dogs. 1667
Etching
- Production date
- 1667
- Dimensions
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Height: 170 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is fourth state with address of van Merlen, for other states see S.3155-3156 and S.3158. This is the title-page to a series of seven prints showing dogs. For comment on the series see S.3155
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.3157
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.3157