Paul Bril
Landscape

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ArtistCircle of Paul Bril (Flemish, 1554–1626)Flemish, 1554–1626

CultureFlemish

Titles

Landscape

Datelate 16th or early 17th century

MediumPen and ink, with wash, on buff laid paper, squared for transfer

Dimensionsimage: 7 13/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.9 × 27 cm)
frame: 16 7/8 × 19 7/16 inches (43 × 49.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Vaughn Foundation Fund

Object number2022.744

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenancePossibly collection of John Bagford (1650-1716), then by transfer to British Library Department of Prints and Drawings [1]; Vaughn Foundation; given to MFAH, 2022.

[1] The faint ink B in the bottom left corner of the image somewhat resembles Lugt 4639, the collector’s mark of English antiquarian and bookseller John Bagford, who is noted for his collection documenting the history of typography. In the years following Bagford’s death, his collection was assembled into bound volumes that were, from 1753 on, kept in the British Library. By the time the Library’s Department of Prints and Drawings formed in 1808, many sheets had already been removed from these volumes, and over the following century large numbers of additional prints, manuscript pages, and drawings were withdrawn and transferred to Prints and Drawings from their original homes in the Department of Manuscripts or the Department of Printed Matter. The B initial identifying works as having belonged to Bagford was added not by Bagford himself, but by the British Library’s Prints and Drawings curators when such works were incorporated into their collection in 1814.

Left: Ink inscription in bottom left corner of drawing

Right: Lugt 4639

Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Mount inscribed l.r.: "P Brill"
Recto: Inscribed in ink, bottom left corner of image: B [possibly Lugt 4639—see Provenance]

None known

Catalogue raisonnéNone

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