- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.2018.187
- People
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Jan van de Velde II, Dutch (Rotterdam(?), Netherlands 1593 - 1641 Enkhuizen, Netherlands)
- Title
- A Farmhouse in the Trees
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1620
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/76987
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 15.9 x 20.3 cm (6 1/4 x 8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Recto, upper right, graphite: Autumnus
- collector's mark: recto, bottom center, stamped in black ink: J.C.S. [Lugt 1434, mark of Johan Conrad Spengler]
- watermark: none
- Provenance
- Johan Conrad Spengler, Copenhagen. [Sotheby's London, 9 April 1970, lot 71] sold; to [John Baskett, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1970
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 1.2018.187
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Exhibition of Old Master and English Drawings, auct. cat. (London, 1970), n.p., cat. no. 14, repr.
Franklin W. Robinson, ed., Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1972), cat. 23, pp. 12 and 63, repr. p. 40
Curtis O. Baer, ed., Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints from American Collections, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1976), cat. 10, pp. 14 and 30-31, repr.
- Exhibition History
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Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 10/31/1972 - 02/25/1973
Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints from American Collections, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 03/28/1976 - 05/07/1976
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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