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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.128
People
Jan de Bisschop, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1628 - 1671 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Windmills
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1660-1669
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191995

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash, brown ink ink and later gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down onto Asian paper
Dimensions
9.3 x 14.3 cm (3 11/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, under thin mount, brown ink, Dutch?: Under the thin mount there is a short text in pen and brown ink, verso, center: illegible but probably location, 17th century.
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: 15
  • inscription: verso, lower left: L. 1508? [John Postle Heseltine? barely legible]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Perhaps John Postle Heseltine, London (perhaps L. 1508, verso, lower left). [Bernard Houthakker Gallery, Amsterdam], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.128.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.128
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, ed., Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1972), cat. 5, pp. 16 and 23-5, repr. p. 67

Exhibition History

  • Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 10/31/1972 - 02/25/1973

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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