1969.114: Rhine Landscape with a Castle on a Hill and to the Right a River

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.114

People

Herman Saftleven, Dutch (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609 - 1685 Utrecht, Netherlands)

Title

Rhine Landscape with a Castle on a Hill and to the Right a River

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296220

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk, graphite, and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in ink or black chalk

Dimensions

33.4 x 44.8 cm (13 1/8 x 17 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: W W.wi. / Sachtleven
• watermark: Strasbourg Lily
• inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 455 [twice, one on the support, and again just below on an adhesive strip]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Austin A. Mitchell, New York, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Austin A. Mitchell

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.114

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 54, n.p., repr. pl. 54

Exhibition History

• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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