The Poet and Parnassus, by Jan de Bray

An image of The Poet and Parnassus. The same composition traced through. Bray, Jan de (Dutch, c.1626/7(?)-1697). Pen and brown ink, grey wash, with a line of brown ink bordering it on all sides and a blank space for an inscription below, on paper, height 179 mm, width 130 mm.

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The Poet and Parnassus. The same composition traced through. Bray, Jan de (Dutch, c.1626/7(?)-1697). Pen and brown ink, grey wash, with a line of brown ink bordering it on all sides and a blank space for an inscription below, on paper, height 179 mm, width 130 mm.

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Accession Number: 2701
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 793 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 888.70kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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17th Century drawing Dutch Dutch Golden Age Fitz_PDP Mount Parnassus Muses mythological mythology Parnassus pegasos pegasus poets

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