Head of an Old Man
Details
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Title
Head of an Old Man
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Artist/maker
school of Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399 - 1464) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
1435 - 1440 -
Material and technique
silverpoint, on cream prepared paper (laid down)
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 8.4 x 7.6 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1935.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1935.96
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Further reading
Parker, Karl Theodore, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, I, Netherlandish, German, French and Spanish Schools (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), 93
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 52 on p. 54, illus. p. 54 fig. 52
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