- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1999.124
- People
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Jan Asselijn, Dutch (Dieppe c. 1610 - 1652 Amsterdam)
- Title
- View of the Arch of Constantine, seen from the Colosseum
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1635-1652
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/212647
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink, gray wash, black chalk, stray white opaque watercolor, stray red pastel, and stray blue-green transparent watercolor stains on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on thick antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 34.6 cm (9 1/2 x 13 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.0 x 41.5 cm (13 7/16 x 16 3/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 1021603/1
- inscription: on monument, gray ink, in artist's hand: MPCAES CO / AVGVSTO / AGNI.[?]TVI[?]RO / MDET[?]VRAN G[?]ODD / CTIONEVNOT... [illegible] / MPVBLICV...[illegible] / CVM MPHO...[illegible]
- watermark: none
- Provenance
- [Sotheby's, London, 18 February 1991, lot 65], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.124.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.124
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010
32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/17/2018 - 04/26/2018
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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