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Self-portrait in a velvet cap with plume
1638
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1933
- Gallery location
- Not on display
Artwork Details
Felton Bequest, 1933
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Watermarks
- Watermark Form
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Arms of Ravensburg
- Arms of Ravensburg, also known as Arms of Regensburg or Two Towers, originated in the city of Ravensburg, Germany. This motif represents the many ‘city gates’ in Ravensburg and is a modified form of the city's coat of arms. In the mid-16th century watermarks with two towers distinguished superior quality paper over watermarks with one tower, a lesser quality paper. A variation of the Two Towers motif was used by papermakers in Eastern France.
- Watermark and variant description
- Arms of Ravensburg - variant C.a. Fragments with what appears to be battlements, probably arms of Ravensburg: two towers with a gate between, on a console.
- Related watermarks in the NGV collection
- See the Two towers watermark in Agony in the Garden, The Holy Family with St John, the Magdalen and Nicodemus, and The Agony in the Garden by Albrecht Dürer.
- Closely related watermark references
- Churchill 273 (1642, as 'Arms of Regensburg', found in manuscript; Heawood 3936 (1646, Amsterdam); Wibiral 17 (1660-70); Tromonin 1327-28 (1647), 1634 (1652); Similar watermark in Ash and Fletcher 1998, 62.
- Completeness
- partial
- Chain Line Interval
- 20-23 mm
- Laid Line Frequency
- 10 per cm
- Placement and spacing of wires
- ? x 7 [16|23|16] x 5
- Wire Side
- verso
- Radiograph taken from
- verso
