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Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls

Album
ca. 1585-1640 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing of a jeweller's lens by Francois Pelgrim of Antwerp, according to an inscription by Lulls, from an album of jewellery designs. There is also a description inscribed by artist about the workings of the lens. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls (generic title)
  • Drawing of a jeweller's lens (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Designs in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold, in a calf skin album
Brief description
Drawing of a jeweller's lens on a separate sheet pasted into an album (in 25 parts) of designs for jewellery (aigrettes, rings, pendants, etc) by Arnold Lulls. Dutch School, ca. late 16th to early 17th century.
Physical description
Drawing of a jeweller's lens by Francois Pelgrim of Antwerp, according to an inscription by Lulls, from an album of jewellery designs. There is also a description inscribed by artist about the workings of the lens. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.
Dimensions
  • Size of album height: 22cm
  • Width: 155cm
  • Size of attached sheet height: 16.3cm
  • Size of attached sheet width: 11.5cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Marks and inscriptions
  • Patroen van den Catrollen om een groie Glas daarnaar te hangen om mit Contoir te gebruijken toe presarviatie (?) Van't (?) gesicht - Mij van Franchois Pelgrim van Antwerpen gesonden. (Inscribed in ink by Lulls)
    Translation
    The design of the pulleys for a magnifying glass to hang by [and] with use of counter weight [to adjust it for corrent] vision. Sent to me by Franchois Pelgrim of Antwerp
  • Die zijn die twee catrollehens die Boven Anden balck off ribben geschroefde Zijn (Inscribed in ink in another hand, presumably that of Pelgrim)
    Translation
    These are the two lens-pulleys which are screwed above onto the beam or the rafters
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Referenced in: Hayward, J. 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Queen Anne of Denmark'. Archaeologia. v.108, pp. 227-237. London, 1986.
Collection
Accession number
D.6:24-1896

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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