Specifications
Title | The History of Ahab and Elijah: the Sacrifice of the Priests of Baal |
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Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), pen and brown ink, indented for transfer, framing lines (partial) with the pen in brown ink (by the artist) |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 198 mm Width 252 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Maarten van Heemskerck
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Accession number | Heemskerck 1 (PK) |
Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1847 |
Creation date | in 1565 |
Signature | '1565 Heemskerck / inventor' dated and signed (at lower right, in pen and brown ink) |
Watermark | none (vV, 10P, very fine) |
Inscriptions | '300' (verso, at lower left, in pencil), 'Hals [?]' (verso, at lower centre, in pencil) |
Collector | Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans |
Mark | Museum Boymans (L.1857) |
Provenance | Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666), London; F.J.O. Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht; bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; on permanent loan to the museum since 1849 |
Exhibitions | none |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | cat. 1852, no. 370; cat. 1869, no. 244; Preibisz 1911, p. 99, no. 179; Hoogewerff IV, 1942, p. 380; Hoetink 1961, p. 23, no. 8; Stechow 1964, p. 37; Saunders 1978, p. 63, note 17; New Hollstein 1993-94 I, p. 114, under no. 129; New Hollstein 2001, I, p. 50, no. 31 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |