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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.125
People
Willem van de Velde II, Dutch (Leiden 1633 - 1707 Greenwich)
Title
Seascape: Men of War Near the Shore
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298825

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a partial framing line in black chalk
Dimensions
19.7 x 30.3 cm (7 3/4 x 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, brown ink: W V V f
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: haf soo groot [with verical dotted lines at center of inscription]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: 3A [? indistinct latter character]
  • watermark: IM [countermark]
  • inscription: right center [left of mast], black chalk: L
  • inscription: lower right, black chalk: k [?]
  • inscription: former mount, in curatorial file, graphite: Wm Vandervelde the Younger / original precious peice Gilmor Cabinet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

Note
Gilmor provenance from a note on the original mat in the hand of John Witt Randall.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.125
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. 534, pp. 280-1; vol. 2, repr. fig. 274
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 61, p. 15
  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p.199, repr. as pl. IV

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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