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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.172
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
An Allegory of Peace Restraining War, a Dove Above; verso: Fleur de lis and Trefoil Designs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
c. 1570
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294225

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
Dimensions
actual: 13.4 x 18.2 cm (5 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christie's Amsterdam, 30 November 1987, lot 6], sold; to Melvin R. Seiden; to Harvard University Art Museum on long term loan, 1988; sold, to Harvard University Art Museum, 1993; The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund, 1993.172.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memoral Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.172
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kristina Hartzer Nguyen, The Made Landscape: City and Country in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1992), p. 15

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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Verification Level

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