drawing
- Museum number
- T,4.49
- Description
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Pilate washing his hands, after after Honthorst, one of a series of 277 drawings commissioned by Brownlow, 9th Earl of Exeter (1725-1793); seated to front with an attendant pouring water on his hands, at right the head of a man peering beneath a curtain, in the background at left Christ carrying the cross
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1744-1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 452 millimetres
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Width: 569 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print is based on a painting currently attributed to Matthias Stom, in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting is mentioned in Benedict Nicolson, 'Stomer brought up-to-date', The Burlington magazine, 119, 1977, 230-245. (nr. 122).
See inventory (2.4.21)
See Curator's Commentary in T,3.1 for details of printed title and inscription relating to the drawings.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1789
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Earl of Exeter 2nd January 1789.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- T,4.49
