M26584: A Forest Marsh with Travelers on a Bank

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M26584

People

Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1682 Amsterdam)

Title

A Forest Marsh with Travelers on a Bank

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Travelers

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1652

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/213776

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 19.5 × 28 cm (7 11/16 × 11 in.)
sheet: 20 × 28.7 cm (7 7/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
image: 18.5 × 27.2 cm (7 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

iii/iv

Standard Reference Number

H., Dutuit 4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Light-Outerbridge Collection, Gift of Robert M. Light and Acquisition Fund for Prints

Accession Year

2005

Object Number

M26584

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Joseph Koerner and Michael Zell, Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist (unnumbered)
• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), p. 235

Exhibition History

• Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000
• 17th Century Landscape Prints, Collegiate School, New York, 01/16/2004 - 01/30/2004
• Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

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