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Woman Addressing a Shepherd Seated on a Tree Trunk

Drawing
late 16th - early 17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Female, partly seen, addressing a shepherd who is seated on the trunk of an old tree; Drawn with a pen, and washed with sepia.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleWoman Addressing a Shepherd Seated on a Tree Trunk (published title)
Materials and techniques
Drawn with a pen, and washed with sepia
Brief description
Drawing, 'Woman Addressing a Shepherd Seated on a Tree Trunk', copy after Abraham Bloemaert, pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk; Dutch School; Late 16th - early 17th century.
Physical description
Female, partly seen, addressing a shepherd who is seated on the trunk of an old tree; Drawn with a pen, and washed with sepia.
Dimensions
  • Height: 261 millimetres
  • Width: 165 millimetres
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with museum's Dyce inv. no.), 398. Inscribed on old Dyce washed border mount, on piece of card from a previous mount glued at lower centre, almost certainly in the hand of Esdaile, in brown ink, Ab. Bloemart; above this, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce's original inv. no.), 215; and at lower right, just below the drawing, in the same hand, also in pencil, 215.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 34, illus. p.77.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.398

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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