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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.214
People
Jacob van der Ulft, Dutch (1627 - 1689)
Title
A Fortified Seaport
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1689
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296551

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, traces of a framing line in black ink
Dimensions
9.9 × 18.9 cm (3 7/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: upper right, brown ink: Jac: vander Ulf [and dated upper left] 1689
  • watermark: Arms of Amsterdam
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, purple ink, stamp: L. 2231 (Rudolf Peltzer)
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: J. van der Ulft
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, brown ink, stamp: L. 2091 (Paul J. Sachs)
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: IV66
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: A78911 [crossed out] [not Colnaghi]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 6/d / PJS / EX

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (L. 2231, with his mark). [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, New York]. Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.214
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 533, p. 280; vol. 2, repr. fig. 273
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 77, p. 18
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 206

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Italy through Dutch Eyes: Dutch Seventeenth Century Landscape Artists in Italy, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 04/22/1964 - 05/24/1964

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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