Jacob de Gheyn

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Jacob de Gheyn
1565-1629
Design for a Garden Grotto
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on laid paper; framing line in brown ink.
7 1/8 x 11 7/8 inches (181 x 302 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Walter C. Baker.
1954.3
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Watermark: Cockatrice with church (similar to Heawood 842), dragon attacking, basilisk. Damage across drawing seen in beta radiograph.

Provenance: 
Sale, Rotterdam, Cornelis Zonne, 20 July 1768, Album C, no. 32 ('een grotwerk"; with no. 31 for Fl. 0.10); Dr. Edmund Schilling, London; acquired from H. M. Calmann, London.
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Zonne, Cornelis, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Baker, Walter C., donor.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 39, no. 65.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fifth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1954, p. 68-70, repr.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 45, repr.

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Gheyn, Jacob de
School: 
Netherlandish
Century: 
16th century
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Drawing
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Drawings and Prints