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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.176
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Village by a River; a church steeple at left
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1646
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/55028

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, gray wash, brown ink, and yellow-green wash on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
10 × 20 cm (3 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, brown ink: 3
  • inscription: verso, upper center, gray ink: out niedorp in noorthollant. 1646
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower left: zu 5728 [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower center: WT: Barter [?] Wappen
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower left: (? In Slg Alexander Katz als Klaes Molenaer)
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 100 x 198 mm
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 1497/53/156
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: f80-
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, black ink stamp: L. 2603 (Walter Beck)
  • watermark: fragment of a shield with a bishop's mitre

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
D. W. Beck, Berlin. [Colnaghi, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.176
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 52, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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