Specifications
Title | The Bird Catchers |
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Material and technique | Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with white, indented for transfer, framing lines with the pen in brown ink, on light brown paper |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 184 mm Width 275 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Johannes Stradanus
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Accession number | MB 1903 (PK) |
Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1852 |
Creation date | in circa 1596 |
Signature | ‘strada’ (lower left corner, in pen and brown ink) |
Watermark | none. In the backing paper a large watermark: Strasburg Bend in an ornamental shield, surmounted by a small diamond, a bunch of grapes and initials CKV (?) on top (173x80mm, on P3-4 from below, vV, 6P, coarse) similar to Heawood 119-120 (doc. Marseilles 1764 or after) and Churchill 435 (French, doc. 1785). [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | ‘Stradanus’ (verso, at lower centre, in pencil), undecipherable off-print in mirror image of horizontal text lines (verso, in pen and brown ink), |
Collector | Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans |
Mark | Museum Boymans (L.1857) |
Provenance | F.J.O. Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht; bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; in the museum since its foundation, 1849 |
Exhibitions | Rotterdam 2004b; Rotterdam 2009; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 58 |
Internal exhibitions |
Prentenkabinet: Vogels van diverse pluimage (2009) Het jaar rond met Bol (2004) |
External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | cat. 1852, no. 954; cat. 1869, no. 818; cat. 1901, p. 62, no. 851; Bok van Kammen 1977, p. 439; Baroni Vannucci 1997, pp. 313-314, no. 577, ill.; New Hollstein 2008b, vol. 3, p. 196, under no. 520 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Heightened with white
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |