recto: Joachim Embracing Anna
Drawing
1661-1669 (made)
1661-1669 (made)
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On the recto, the elderly, bearded figure of Joachim on the right embraces the veiled figure of Anna, whose face is hidden behind his; both are dressed in heavy robes. They stand in a faintly described village landscape, with a horse-drawn cart on the left and farm buildings and a herdsman with two cows and a sheep (?) on the right. The sheet has been cropped prior to reuse, as on its verso is a fragment of a freely handled sketch of a figure apparently wielding a sword, possibly a figure of St Michael or St George.
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Materials and techniques | Recto: pen and black ink, with grey wash; verso: pen and brown ink. |
Brief description | Drawing, recto: 'Joachim Embracing Anna'; verso: 'Sketch of a figure wielding a sword', copy after Lucas van Leyden, Dutch School, 17th century |
Physical description | On the recto, the elderly, bearded figure of Joachim on the right embraces the veiled figure of Anna, whose face is hidden behind his; both are dressed in heavy robes. They stand in a faintly described village landscape, with a horse-drawn cart on the left and farm buildings and a herdsman with two cows and a sheep (?) on the right. The sheet has been cropped prior to reuse, as on its verso is a fragment of a freely handled sketch of a figure apparently wielding a sword, possibly a figure of St Michael or St George. |
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Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on recto at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 387. Inscribed on old ruled and gold mount, in pencil: underneath floated drawing, at centre, £5–5–0; below window opening, at lower right, by Dyce, L.V. Leyden; and above this, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 198. |
Object history | Unidentified collector (L. 2508 [at lower left edge; trimmed]);1 Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 116, illus. p.160. |
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Accession number | DYCE.387 |
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Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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