print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.5082
- Title
- Series: "Nieuwe Ordonanten van Sinnebeelden....."
- Description
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2: a globe on a decorated socle; the globe is partly covered with a cloth; around the globe three figures: Father Time on the right; Demeter on the left and Hephaistos behind the globe; an eye in the top left corner; a portrait of a Roman emperor in the background; plate from the series "Nieuwe Ordonanten van Sinnebeelde, Geschikt Tot het Schildere van Deure: Haartslee-stucke, etc. door A. Houbraken. III deel"; third part of a series of figures depicting emblems and symbols
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- Production date
- 1675-1719 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (oval at the top)
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Width: 128 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Hollstein mentions similar series by Arnold Houbraken (Hollstein 20-76/ 77-117/ 118), but the series in the BM from the Sheepshanks collection is undescribed.
- 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.5082
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.5082