drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1854,0628.111.15
- Description
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(a) A plank bridge across a frozen canal, and (b) skaters on a canal by a castellated building, leaf from the Van Borssom sketchbook;
Pen (often reed pen) and brown ink and (b) with some grey wash.
Verso: Three turkeys at the foot of a pedestal
Pen (often reed pen) and brown ink with grey wash.
No watermark.
- Production date
- 1645-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 231 millimetres (page)
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Width: 175 millimetres (chain lines horizontal, 24/25mm apart)
- $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, entry no.19 (folio 15):
The statue and garden scenery relate this drawing to folios 3-4, as well as the next folio (16 recto) and folios 24-29, 33-34, 37 and 40.
For further information see f.1 of the Van Borssom sketchbook, 1854,0628.111.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1992, BM, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle, (folios 16 verso and 17 recto, not in catalogue).
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Acquisition notes
- 1854,0628.81 to 117 were purchased from Tiffin and the register records that they were all drawings that he had bought on his own account at the Woodburn sale. The Bill Book gives prices and agrees that all of them came from the Woodburn sale. Neither source gives the lot numbers. The van Borssum sketchbook is one that can be positively identified.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0628.111.15
