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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.81
People
Anna Maria de Koker (Monnikendam c. 1650-1698 Amsterdam)
Title
The Cottages at the Pond
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/315222

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 15.6 x 20.3 cm (6 1/8 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left corner, printed: AMDKoker fecit.
  • inscription: verso lower right in ink: 30 Sept. 1955 / 289 within collector's stamp, and below stamp: P1955-46
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right: unidentified collector's stamp
  • inscription: lower left, printed: AMDKoker fecit.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
H. 2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.81
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Over the last few years, the collection of Netherlandish prints at the Fogg has grown in both size and importance, especially in the area of seventeenth-century landscape prints. However there are few examples of landscape prints by women artists from the period. Landscape was one of the few genre allowable for women artists to practice-it didn't contain the indecorous elements of history or mythological subject matter. Women artists could wander close to home, sketching from nature, and then return to their studios to etch their designs on copperplates. Anna Maria de Koker was one of the more prolific landscape etchers of her time, producing twenty known landscape scenes. This one of cottages alongside a pond demonstrates her skill at capturing the details and ambiance of her surroundings.

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