Maison Hilwerue a Anuers dit l hostel Rubens 1684 [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Maison Hilwerue a Anuers dit l hostel Rubens 1684 [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Maison Hilwerue à Anvers dit l'hostel Rubens 1684
- Creator
- Harrewijn, Franciscus, 1700-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Croes, Jacques van, active 17th century, artist.
- Published / Created
- [between 1715 and 1764]
- Publication Place
- Belgium
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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"View of Rubens' house in Antwerp in 1684. View of the courtyard and the garden seen through a gate at centre; the house front at right richly decorated with statues, busts and friezes, a dog in its open doorway; a plainer building with small fountain and open door at left; ornamental gate at centre surmounted by statues of Mercury and Minerva, a tall fountain of a shepherd in a grotto at its right corner, the garden with ornamental covered seat and trees seen through its arches; a caption below inscribed on architectural structure with central cartouche showing a dolphin."--British Museum online catalogue
"This is one of two plates by Harrewyn depicting Rubens' house; the other (Hollstein 14, Schneevoogt 226.28, second plate) gives a view from the courtyard towards the house 'Parties de la maison Hilwerue a Anuers 1692'."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
- Description
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Title engraved at bottom of image.
Early state, before portrait roundel added in top center. For the later state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,5.3.
Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence. See British Museum online catalogue.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,5.2.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 64 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 28.4 x 35 cm
- Language
-
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Views
Etchings Belgium 1715
Engravings Belgium 1715 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Subject (Name)
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
- Subject (Topic)
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Homes & haunts
Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings - Subjects
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Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 > Homes & haunts
Antwerp (Belgium) > Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Belgium > 1715
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13444280
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729669
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