DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY | STUDY OF A BOY STANDING ON ONE LEG
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May 29, 06:11 PM GMT
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DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
STUDY OF A BOY STANDING ON ONE LEG
Black, red and yellow chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper;
bears early inscriptions in pen and ink, on the reverse of the backing: 3, No= and Vte., and later inscriptions, in black chalk: Berent Avercamp (deleted) / Willem Buyteweg and WOttley / Given me by my Brother / Herbert, March 24 1857
sheet: 13⅝ by 9¾ in; 343 by 246 mm
framed: 24 by 18 in; 610 by 457 mm
Herbert Ottley (b.1826),
by whom given, on 24 March 1857, to his brother, Warner Ottley, Jnr. (b.1811);
Herbert and Warner Ottley were the nephews of the celebrated keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, William Young Ottley (1771-1836).