1970.75: Ship at Sea

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1970.75

People

Wigerus Vitringa, Dutch (1655 - 1721)

Title

Ship at Sea

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1700

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296222

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, autograph framing line in graphite

Dimensions

actual: 11.2 x 14.8 cm (4 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: upper left, gray ink: W: Vitringa 1700
• label: former mat, brown ink, print: [crest flanked by two mermaids, within:] The / H. Lieber / Company / Indianapolis
• inscription: former mat, graphite: W: Vilringa 1700
• inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: 7
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mrs. Arthur Mansfield (Ruth Steele) Brooks, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Alfred Mansfield Brooks

Accession Year

1970

Object Number

1970.75

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 2, p. 582, under cat. nos. 1110 and 1111 (n. 2)

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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