- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.2018.284
- People
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Abraham Rutgers, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1632 - 1699 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Title
- Dike on a River
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1686-1687
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/212220
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 11.8 x 20 cm (4 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- collector's mark: Verso, lower left, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] (Lugt 3306, mark of The Maida and George Abrams Collection)
- inscription: Verso, upper left, faint graphite (?): J. Leupenius f. 1666 / den tijd v Rembrandt / Wijk te Duursteede
- inscription: Verso, lower left, faint graphite (?): K N 109 / f 2 (?)
- inscription: Verso, center, faint graphite (?): g. 12. / 39 [underlined]
- watermark: none
- Provenance
- Theo Laurentius, Voorschoten. Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1984
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Maida and George Abrams Collection, Boston, Long Term Loan
- Object Number
- 1.2018.284
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 69, pp. 156-157, repr.
- Exhibition History
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Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992
Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/2010 - 03/06/2011
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
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