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Object Type
print
Museum number
Sheepshanks.4300
Description
A lady wearing a feathered hat and writing at a table, her left hand pointed at her mouth, half-length turned three-quarter to right; reworked; soiled plate-edges Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
Carel De Moor
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1676-1738
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
163 millimetres
Width:
126 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is second state with signature, for first state see S.4299 and S.7686
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(18.II)
Wurzbach 1906-11 / Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon
(II.185.16)
Nagler 1858-79 / Die Monogrammisten
(2465.7.II)
van der Kellen 1866 / Le Peintre-Graveur Hollandais et Flamand. Catalogue raisonne des Estampes gravees par les peintres de l'ecole hollandaise et flamande. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-Graveur de Bartsch
(16.II)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W & G Smith
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Sheepshanks
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.4300
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
S.4300