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Gerard Hoet
1648-1733
Joshua Outside the Walls of Jericho
Pen and black ink and wash, a few corrections in opaque white, on paper; the outlines indented with a stylus and the verso rubbed with black chalk for transfer; framing line in graphite around the design area and in brown ink along right edge.
Full sheet: 13 3/8 x 16 13/16 inches (340 x 426 mm); design area: 13 x 16 9/16 inches (330 x 420 mm)
Gift of Spencer A. Samuels.
1990.3
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Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4" and "WR", (Strasbourg lily), (similar to Heawood, nos. 1803-6: Holland and England, early eighteenth century).
Provenance:
John Tetlow (d. before 1840), Alkrington Hall, Lancashire (Lugt 2868); Spencer A. Samuels & Co., New York.
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Associated names:
Tetlow, John, former owner.
Samuels, Spencer A., former owner.
Bibliography:
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 385.
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