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Bookbinders at Work

Drawing
1683 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing, 'Bookbinders at Work', 1 of 24 emblems painted for the Jesuit College of Brussels, by Joannes Carolus van Deijnum, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, with watercolour, dated 1683


Object details

Object type
TitleBookbinders at Work (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour
Brief description
Drawing, 'Bookbinders at Work', 1 of 24 emblems painted for the Jesuit College of Brussels, by Joannes Carolus van Deijnum, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, with watercolour, dated 1683
Dimensions
  • Full sheet height: 279/258mm
  • Full sheet width: 190/177mm
  • Oval design height: 146mm
  • Oval design width: 126mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Ruled lines in black chalk for the inscription at the top, in brown ink, etiam in doc- / trina multa / intricata / inveniuntur / set facile / expediun- / tur (‘Even in learning, many tangled things are found, but they are easily untangled’).
  • Inscribed below, in brown ink, Implicita explicat / Hic etiam reperis ubi cuncta videntur aperta, / Implicita? et studiis expedienda tuis? / Sed bene : vim magnam quod non adhibere necesse est ; / Non erit hac ingens explicuisse labor. Joannes Franciscus rosseels brux[ellensis] poeta in / Gym[nasio] Soc[ieta]tis jesu. brux[ellis] 1683.
  • Inscribed at lower right, in graphite, P. Baut; and just above, in brown ink (with the museum’s inv. no.), 9280.23. Inscribed on verso, at upper centre, in brown ink, No 58x. Inscribed at bottom of mount, in graphite, Bookbinding.
Object history
Edwin Parsons (dealer), London; from whom purchased (as a ‘Series of 24 pen drawings representing trades etc.’ as by P. Baut [in cover]) by the museum, 22 July 1884 for £1. 10s. 0d.
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 468.23, illus. p.396.
Collection
Accession number
9280:23

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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