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Dead woodpecker
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1589-1631
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1636-1695
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Width: 29.7 cm
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Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite: “193”; left centre edge, graphite: “no 13.”; left lower edge, graphite: “9192 sell mee/-/-”. Mount border (separated, but still mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower centre, black ink: “MELCHIOR DE HONDECOETER”; lower centre edge, graphite, circled: “23”. Mount (removed, cut into three separate pieces and mounted with the drawing), all in graphite: “Melchior d’Hondecoeter. / Coll: - C.S. Bale. (1791-1880) London //”; “Distinguished connoisseur of his time. Collected / works of art of every description, particularly / old master drawings. His series of miniatures by / Ozias Humphrey are now in the JP Morgan Collection. //”; “9192. / mee/q. //”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre, stamped in black ink: Charles Sackville Bale (L.640).
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