print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.934
- Description
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Portrait of the poet Jan de Vos, half-length with shoulders turned towards the left and head slightly to the right, wearing a skull-cap and his hair hanging long over his collar, and a dark robe with light cuffs, a scroll of paper in his raised left hand; second state before lettering
Etching
- Production date
- 1660 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 170 millimetres
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Width: 130 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is second state before the poem in the lower margin, for another impression see J,28.2. In a later state the margin is occupied by a eulogistic poem by Joost van den Vondel, for impressions of this state in BM collection see 1973,U.1553 and 1868,0822.723. The print was used as an illustration to an edition of Jan de Vos's poems published in 1662 ('Gedichten', published by J. Lescaille, Amsterdam, 1662). For a copy in reverse by Andries van Buysen see 1928,0313.116.
See also A. Griffiths (ed.), 'Landmarks in Print Collecting, Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum since 1753', BM, 1996, cat.26.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996 Apr-Jun, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996 Jul-Sep, LA, Huntington Library and AG, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996, Oct-Dec, Baltimore, Museum of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1997 Jan-Apr, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
- 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.934
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.934
