Beleg van Tunis, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, 1540 - 1550

Title(s)

Beleg van Tunis

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1963-265

Description

Ontwerp voor een wandtapijt.

Artist

• draughtsman: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Dating

1540 - 1550

Material

• paper
• ink

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 355 mm × width 345 mm

What

• siege

When

• 1535 - 1535

Where

• Tunis

Who

• Karel V van Habsburg (Duits keizer en koning van Spanje)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1963

Copyright

Public domain

• Grand design : Pieter Coecke van Aelst and renaissance tapestry, Elizabeth A.H. Cleland, Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, Stijn Alsteens, Nadine Monica Orenstein, p. 328, fig. 238
• Erasmus in beeld, Marjolijn Bol, Peter van der Coelen, p. 162, cat.nr. 63
• Netherlandish drawings of the 15th and 16th centuries, p. 170, cat.nr. 461
• The Sack of Tunis by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen : A Section of a Preliminary Drawing for his Conquest of Tunis Series, Hendrik J. Horn
• Aanwinsten : 1 september 1962 - 1 november 1963