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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.149
People
Nicolaes Berchem the Elder, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1620 - 1683 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape with Ruined Bridge
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296489

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown oil-based ink monotype, extensively burnished, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
27.9 x 34.5 cm (11 x 13 9/16 in.)
mount: 29.3 x 34.7 cm (11 9/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: rghem
  • inscription: mount, upper center, brown ink: Nicolaus Berchem.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, on patch, brown ink, pen: o. 4.
  • watermark: coat of arms with countermark
  • inscription: mount, recto, lower left, graphite: Gravure? / Jackson!
  • watermark: mount: Lion (similar to Churchill 160, 161, without lettering)
  • label: mount, verso, lower left and right: [left:] Es 1897 [right:] Bruzell
  • inscription: mat, graphite: Michel Carrée - GLG

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Irving M. Sobin, Boston, Masschusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Irving Sobin
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.149
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lisa Hall, "Counterproofs: An Investigation into the History, Materials, Techniques, and Uses of Red Chalk Counterproofs with an Examination of Other Methods of Copying" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-62 passim

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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