Portrait of John van der Does

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Maker

After
(artist)
1629-1658
(printmaker)
1698-1780
(publisher)
1705-1765

Title

Portrait of John van der Does

Date of Production

1749 - 1759

Medium

etching and engraving
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 11.4 cm

Object Number

G.1990.WL.8389

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within image, lower centre, in a plaque, black ink: “JOHNKHR. JOHAN VAN DER DOES, / Heere van Noordwyk, / Bevelhebber in Leyden, geduurende de Belegering. / J. Houbraken fec. naar de Or. Pr. van C. Visscher. //”; below the image, lower centre edge, black ink: “IS. TIRION excudit. //”.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Ver Huell, Alexander, Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre, Arnhem, P Gouda Quint 1875
p. 18, cat. no. 100
also in his 1877 supplement, p. 15, no. 100
Muller, Frederik, Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders, Amsterdam 1853
p. 72, cat. no. 1332e

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