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Imaginary Architectural Setting with Various Figures

Drawing
1669-c.1705 (made)
Artist/Maker

Drawing 'Imaginary Architectural Setting with Various Figures', by Jan Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish School, graphite, pen and ink, 1669-c.1705


Object details

Object type
TitleImaginary Architectural Setting with Various Figures (published title)
Materials and techniques
Graphite, pen and black ink, with blue and grey wash, red chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper
Brief description
Drawing 'Imaginary Architectural Setting with Various Figures', by Jan Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish School, graphite, pen and ink, 1669-c.1705
Dimensions
  • Height: 582mm
  • Width: 518mm
  • Second sheet stuck over bottom of the composition height: 110mm
  • Second sheet stuck over the bottom of the composition width: 502mm
Cut at the top in the shape of an arch
Production typeUnique
Object history
Mr Hallyer; from whom purchased (with inv. nos. 4587; 4589; 4590) by the museum (L. 1958), 15 January 1886 for £5. 0s. 0d.
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 513, illus. p.435.
Collection
Accession number
4588

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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