Jacob de Gheyn
1565-1629
Design for a Garden Grotto
7 1/8 x 11 7/8 inches (181 x 302 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on laid paper; framing line in brown ink.
1954.3
Purchased as the gift of Walter C. Baker.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Cockatrice with church (similar to Heawood 842), dragon attacking, basilisk. Damage across drawing seen in beta radiograph.
Associated names
Zonne, Cornelis, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Baker, Walter C., donor.
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.
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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