- Museum number
- 1836,0811.66
- Description
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A thatched dovecote; a wooden structure in an open field, with trees behind.
Reed pen and brown ink over light indications in graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink (of a warmer hue than the ink of the drawing).
Verso: see Inscriptions below.
Watermark: arms of Amsterdam.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres (chain lines vertical, 24mm apart)
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Width: 201 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.14:
The drawing was presumably made out-of-doors, but the location has not been identified. A comparable structure appears in van Borssom's drawing of the 'Hunting-Lodge Toutenburg at Maartensdijk', which may have been composed on the basis of studies made from nature (Sumowski 307, present whereabouts unknown).[1]
NOTES:
[1] See Lit. below, and under cat. no.6 (1836,0811.59), n.1.
LITERATURE :
London, 1915, p.66, no.18; Sumowski, 1979 etc., II, 1979, p.658, under no.307 (wrongly stating that the drawing contains watercolour; a dovecote appears in the 'Country House in Soest', Sumowski 307, location unknown); Broos, 1984, p.164 (identifies Sumowski 307 as of the 'Hunting Lodge Toutenburg at Maartensdijk').
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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No exhibitions recorded.
- Condition
- Generally good; some slight staining to left side and creases at lower left corner.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- Probably Ten Hoeve and Tourton sale, Amsterdam, 8th etc. April, 1760, portfolio G, no.15 ('Een Duivenhius'); probably Dirk Versteegh sale, Amsterdam, De Vries and Roos, 3rd etc. November, 1823, portfolio no.G, no.18 ('Un volet ou une tour pour des Colombiers, à la plume'), bt Engelberts, f.15; probably Abraham de Haas sale, Amsterdam, De Vries and Roos, 8-10 November, 1824, portfolio X, no.9 ('Een Duiventoren'), bt Gruiter, f.5.15; probably anonymous sale, Amsterdam, de Vries, Roos, et al., 20th etc. November, 1826, portfolio B, no.43 ('Een Duiventoren, meesterlyk met de rietpen'), bt Brondgeest with B.40-44, f20.10; probably anonymous sale, Amsterdam, van Campen, 2-3rd March, 1829, portfolio B, no.24 ('Een Duiventoorn, fix met de rietpen'), sold with B.23 for f.7); John Sheepshanks; purchased with his collection from Messrs William Smith.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0811.66
