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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1982.129
People
Anthonie van Borssom, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1630 - 1677 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape with a Cottage
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295088

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
18.9 x 30.4 cm (7 7/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, brown ink: AVB[in ligature]orssom - fct. . .
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 2332 (J. P. van Suchtelen)
  • inscription: verso, fragment of old mount, graphite: 11
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: 65
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: Borssom 15.000 / 17c
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: haut [?] - 186 l L. 812 l [?]
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: colln de la G. de Such...[illegible] Stephan in de Baden
  • watermark: fragment of a pascal lamb on a crowned shield, vaguely similar to Churchill 456 (German 1657).

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, St. Petersburg (L. 2332 with his mark). Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Maida and George S. Abrams in memory of Jakob Rosenberg
Accession Year
1982
Object Number
1982.129
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), Addendum no. A4, p. 168, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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