Hades abducting Persephone: motif from a relief of the rape of Persephone
Drawing
1628-1671 (made)
1628-1671 (made)
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Part of a bound volume of 140 drawings
Object details
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| Title | Hades abducting Persephone: motif from a relief of the rape of Persephone (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over red chalk; framing line in brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Hades abducting Persephone: motif from a relief of the Rape of Persephone', by Jan de Bisschop, pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over red chalk, framing line in brown ink, mid-seventeenth century |
| Physical description | Part of a bound volume of 140 drawings |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Object history | Goswin Uilenbroek (1658–1740), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, Beukelaar, 23 October 1741, Album K: ‘Een groot Boek in Jugt leer van omtrent 120 Tekeningen, gewassen van Bisschop na Statuen en groepen in Antieke Bas relieven, getekent met voornemen om in ‘t koper te brengen, gelyk hy in zyn Voorreden van zijn Boek zegt, op groot gedubbelt papier geplakt. 4 ou plus’ (bt. for 280 fl.); Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jb Czn (1726–98), Amsterdam (L. 2725), 1760–c.1763;1 probably Benjamin West (1738–1820), London; probably Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92), London; Horace Walpole (1717–97), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, 1763; Edwin Parsons (dealer), London; from whom purchased for the museum (each individual drawing with dry stamp version of L. 1958), 8 June 1889 for £13. 13s. 0d. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. no. 23.23, illus. p. 34 |
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| Accession number | D.1212:24-1889 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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