Gerard Hoet
1648-1733
Joshua Outside the Walls of Jericho
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)
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.
1990.3
Gift of Spencer A. Samuels.
Inscriptions/Markings
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).
Associated names
Tetlow, John, former owner.
Samuels, Spencer A., 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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Century Drawings
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