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Attributed to Jacob Van Der Ulft (1627-89)
Cowbrig about to be burnt at Oxford, 1535 c.1647-57
Brush drawing in black with watercolour over graphite, heightened with white; indented for transfer | 11.0 x 14.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906545
Attributed to Jacob Van Der Ulft (1627-89)
Cowbrig about to be burnt at Oxford, 1535 c.1647-57
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A drawing of a scene in a town square; a man surrounded by soldiers stands with a friar holding a crucifix beside a straw hut, in which he is to be burnt. This drawing was engraved in reverse for the first illustrated edtion prepared by Jan Gysius, of Adam Haemstede, Historie der Martelaren, published in Dordrecht, 1657. (RL 6538-6551 are either the preparatory drawings or presumably rejected designs for this publication.)
Provenance
First recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 118: '14. Small ones of the Barbarous Executions of the Protestants in Flanders')
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Medium and techniques
Brush drawing in black with watercolour over graphite, heightened with white; indented for transfer
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11.0 x 14.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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