Village schoolmaster and his pupils
Drawing
17th century (drawn)
17th century (drawn)
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Village schoolmaster and his pupils; An urchin standing on a block of wood before hgim, saying his lessons, other boys are waiting their turns; Slightly drawn, in red chalk.
Object details
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| Title | Village schoolmaster and his pupils (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Red chalk, with brush and dry reddish-brown pigment; framing line in brown ink. Numbered at upper right, in black chalk, <i>15</i>; and inscribed at lower right, also in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), <i>466</i>. Inscribed on old plain mount, in pencil: at lower centre, by Dyce, <i>Heemskerck</i>; and at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), <i>232</i>; on verso of mount, in brown ink: at upper left, <i>…t Hemskirk</i>; and at lower right (now partially erased), by Dyce, from (?) <i>… / … Interior of a Village School–– / very cl…</i> |
| Brief description | Heemskerck, Egbert van the elder (?); Village schoolmaster and his pupils; An urchin standing on a block of wood before hgim, saying his lessons, other boys are waiting their turns; Slightly drawn, in red chalk; Dutch School; 17th century. |
| Physical description | Village schoolmaster and his pupils; An urchin standing on a block of wood before hgim, saying his lessons, other boys are waiting their turns; Slightly drawn, in red chalk. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Provenance: Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol.I, cat.84, pp.132-33 |
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| Accession number | DYCE.466 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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