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Alessandro Farnese Receiving the Surrender of the City of Antwerp in 1585
Marten de Vos, born 1532 - died 1603 - Enlarge image
Alessandro Farnese Receiving the Surrender of the City of Antwerp in 1585
- Object:
Drawing
- Date:
16th century (drawn)
- Artist/Maker:
Marten de Vos, born 1532 - died 1603 (artist)
Meulen, Adam Frans van der, born 1632 - died 1690 (formerly attributed to) - Materials and Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, with brownish/blue and greenish/yellow washes
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
- Museum number:
DYCE.574
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 2, shelf H, box 6
Physical description
Army encamped and assembling to besiege a town, which is on the opposite side of a river; a meeting of generals in the foreground
Date
16th century (drawn)
Artist/maker
Marten de Vos, born 1532 - died 1603 (artist)
Meulen, Adam Frans van der, born 1632 - died 1690 (formerly attributed to)
Materials and Techniques
Pen and brown ink, with brownish/blue and greenish/yellow washes
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 574.
Inscribed on washed mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with the original Dyce inv. no.), 222.
Dimensions
Height: 350 mm, Width: 290 mm
Object history note
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Descriptive line
Drawing 'Alessandro Farnese Receiving the Surrender of the City of Antwerp in 1585', by Maerten de Vos, pen and brown ink, 16th century
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
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. II, cat. 594, pp. 495-96
Materials
Pen; Wash; Paper
Techniques
Drawing (image-making); Wash technique
Subjects depicted
Town; Generals; Horses; River; Army; Soldiers; Trees
Categories
Drawings
Production Type
Unique
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
