Jesuit priest disputing with Aaron Monceca: vignette for the title of Volume 6 of of Jean-Baptiste De Boyer, Marquis D’Argens, Lettre juives, ou correspondance philospophique, historique et critique (1738)
Drawing
1738 (made)
1738 (made)
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In a cartouche decorated with musical instruments in the ornamental border, a Jesuit priest stands on left, talking to a well-dressed gentleman in the latest French fashion, and pointing towards a stage, where a performance is taking place beyond an orchestra, whose heads and instruments are just visible above the edge of the pit.
Object details
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| Title | Jesuit priest disputing with Aaron Monceca: vignette for the title of Volume 6 of of Jean-Baptiste De Boyer, Marquis D’Argens, Lettre juives, ou correspondance philospophique, historique et critique (1738) (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and black ink, with grey wash; framing line in graphite. |
| Brief description | Print/Drawing, Jesuit priest disputing with Aaron Monceca: vignette for the title of Volume 6 of of Jean-Baptiste De Boyer, Marquis D’Argens, Lettre juives, ou correspondance philospophique, historique et critique (1738), Jacobus van der Schley, Dutch School, 1738 |
| Physical description | In a cartouche decorated with musical instruments in the ornamental border, a Jesuit priest stands on left, talking to a well-dressed gentleman in the latest French fashion, and pointing towards a stage, where a performance is taking place beyond an orchestra, whose heads and instruments are just visible above the edge of the pit. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed and dated at lower centre, in black ink, JVSchley f 1738; and numbered at lower right, in pale brown ink, 8. |
| Object history | Edwin Parsons (dealer), London; from whom purchased (with cat. nos. 182–4 and 186–90) by the museum (dry stamp version of L. 1958), 15 November 1889 for £2. 2s. 0d. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 186, illustrated. pg. 234 |
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| Accession number | D.1962-1889 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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