PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN
Jacob van der Ulft
DESIGN FOR THE TITLE PAGE TO SUETONIUS'S LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS (1672)
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Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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Jacob van der Ulft
GORINCHEM 1627 - 1689 NOORDWIJK
DESIGN FOR THE TITLE PAGE TO SUETONIUS'S LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS (1672)
Pen and brown ink and wash and watercolor, over traces of black chalk;
signed, bottom edge (cut): J van Ulft F and inscribed, verso: De tijtel van Suetonius Leevender / Roounde Kysere Door J:v: Ulft
187 by 139 mm; 7 3/8 by 5½ in
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signed, bottom edge (cut): J van Ulft F and inscribed, verso: De tijtel van Suetonius Leevender / Roounde Kysere Door J:v: Ulft
187 by 139 mm; 7 3/8 by 5½ in
Provenance
Paul Eeckhout, Ghent (L.824a),
Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam (L.3893), by 1973,
from whom acquired by the late owner
Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam (L.3893), by 1973,
from whom acquired by the late owner
Literature
P. Fuhring, Design into Art. Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London 1989, vol. I, p. 141, no. 98, reproduced
Catalogue Note
This well preserved sheet is Jacob van der Ulft's design for the frontispiece of the 1672 edition of Suetonius' De Vitae Caesarum, which was published in Leiden 202 years after the Roman first edition.
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Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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