- Museum number
- 1836,0811.62
- Description
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A turkey and a cock by a tree; facing each other, another bird beyond and part of a fence to right.
Pen and brown ink, the recto touched with brown and red wash; framing line in pen and brown ink.
Verso: Sketches of eight skaters; peasant men and women with a woman lifting her skirts.
No watermark.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres (chain lines vertical, 24mm apart)
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Width: 198 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, 'Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school', 2010, Anthonie van Borssom, cat. no.15:
The verso, like cat. no.1 (1836,0811.64) and some leaves of his sketchbook, cat. no.19 (1854,0628.111) gives a rare glimpse of van Borssom as a purely figurative draughtsman.
LITERATURE :
London, 1915, p.66, no.19; Sumowski, 1979 etc., II, 1979, no.363x (compares 'Dog barking at Birds' in Louvre, RF 728, [Exh. Paris, 1988-9, no.120, repr.]); Exh. Paris, 1988-9, under no.120 (as Sumowski, 1979).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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No exhibitions recorded.
- Condition
- Glue-stains along lower and right edges, otherwise good; the sheet trimmed to cut away the top of two of the figures on the verso.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- Possibly sale, Amsterdam, de Winter and Yver, 12 December, 1768, p.37, portfolio F, no.501 ('Twee stuks Westinind. Vogels, door VAN BORSEN en VAN VEEN [Gekleurd]'); Van Puten (mark on verso; not identifiable in his sale, 1829); John Sheepshanks; purchased with his collection from Messrs William Smith.
Alice Davies recognised van Puten's mark on the verso (e-mail 28 January 2009) and has kindly provided further assistance with the provenance of some drawings by Van Borssom.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0811.62
