Four Scenes from The Life of Abraham

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Request to view at the Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H , Case DG, Shelf 19

Artist/Maker

Coecke Van Aelst, Pieter (artist)

Primaticcio, Francesco (artist)

Subjects from the life of Abraham, within one composition; Abraham commanded to go to Canaan; Sarah and her female friends seated in conversation; Death of Abraham, his sons kneeling around his bed; His burial in the cave of Machpelah.

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Drawing
Title	Four Scenes from The Life of Abraham (published title)
Materials and techniques	Pen and brownish-black ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, on salmon-tinted paper Pen Brown Wash White Pigment Paper Drawing Heightening
Brief description	Drawing 'Four Scenes from The Life of Abraham', manner of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, pen and ink, first half 16th century
Physical description	Subjects from the life of Abraham, within one composition; Abraham commanded to go to Canaan; Sarah and her female friends seated in conversation; Death of Abraham, his sons kneeling around his bed; His burial in the cave of Machpelah.
Dimensions	Height: 280mm Width: 393mm
Production type	Unique
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed in brown ink: at lower left, 7 Diskortel(?); and at lower right (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 358. Inscribed at the bottom of the washed mount, in black ink, Primaticcio and Subjects relating to Abraham; and on the verso, Francisc Primatzo. There is another illegible inscription, crossed out, on the mount.
Credit line	Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history	Count Moritz von Fries (1777–1826), Vienna (L. 2903); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted	Women Men Angels Pillar Bed Abraham Sarah
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. II, Cat. 464, illus. p.385.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	DYCE.358

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Record created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O241021/four-scenes-from-the-life-drawing-coecke-van-aelst/

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