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Gravedigger

  • pencils (drawing and writing equipment), ink, watercolour, gouache, paper
  • 232 x 198 mm
  • Inv. 2011-AO

Public Domain

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Artist

Henri Leys RKD VIAF Wikidata
Antwerp 1815 - Antwerp 1869
draftsmen (artists)AAT

Title Gravedigger
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: H Leys
Collection print room
Object type watercolour AAT
ink drawing
pencil drawings AAT
gouache AAT
Inventory number 2011-AO
Acquisition credit bequest
Lerno (coll.)
Ghent
2011
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2011-AO
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6060/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11L541411 Death (as one of the Four Last Things) Iconclass
31A21 (human) skeleton Iconclass
31A211 (human) skull Iconclass
31A22 parts of the human body (skeleton excepted) Iconclass
31A235 sitting figure Iconclass
31A25312 head held in the hand(s), with elbows leaning on an elevation or on the knees Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
31E33 decomposition (of dead body) Iconclass
31F1 symbols of Death Iconclass
31F12 bones (symbol of Death) Iconclass
31F23 Death as man Iconclass
31F26 Death as skeleton Iconclass
31F27 Death as devilish being Iconclass
31FF23 Death as man - FF - Death as female Iconclass
41A773 container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Iconclass
41A774 container of glass: bottle, jar, vase Iconclass
41B33 lantern Iconclass
42E272 grave digger Iconclass
School / Style historicism (theory) AAT
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