- Museum number
- 1854,0628.14
- Description
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The drawbridge to Borsen Burgh, a house on the Amstel River; the drawbridge in the foreground, leading to a gate at right with a name on the lintel "BORSEN-BURGH", a road leading from the bridge at left past a group of houses behind.
Pen and brown ink and watercolour; a touch of red chalk, lower left; framing lines in pen and black ink.
Verso: blank.
Watermark: indistinct, with letter 'Y' near the centre.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 308 millimetres (chain lines horizontal, 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, cat. no.3:
The house represented lay on the west bank of the Amstel River towards the Omval. Another version of the drawing is in the collection of the Stichting P. and N. de Boer.[1]
NOTES:
[1] Formerly in the E. Wauters, A.W.M. Mensing and de Robiano collections, sold Amsterdam, Muller, 15-16 June, 1926, lot 534; see Exh. Laren, 1966, no.30.
LITERATURE :
Waagen, IV, 1857, p.41, no.2 (Lievens); London, 1915, p.63, no.5, repr. pl.XXXII (van Borssom; notes former attribution to Lievens [see n.1 above]); Exh. Laren, 1966, p.7, under no.30; Exh. Brussels-Rotterdam-Paris-Bern, 1968-9, p.96, under no.93, n.7; Exh. New York-Paris, 1977-8, p.94, under no.64; Sumowski, 1979 etc., II, 1979, under no.292.
EARLIER COMMENT:
The Borsen-Burgh is probably a pun on Van Borssom's name.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1956, London, p.28, no.3;
1992, BM, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle (not in catalogue).
- Condition
- Good; a horizontal crease 50mm from the top edge; thin patches near centre of both edges; top right corner folded.
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Acquisition notes
- Probably anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley et al., 29 April, 1817, portfolio D, no.9 ('De opgang tot het Huis Borssenburg. Natuurlijk met de pen en r. door A. van Borssum'), bt Hodges, f.7.10; Samuel Woodburn; his sale, Christie's, 20 June, 1854, lot 904, bt Tiffin, for British Museum. The owner of the annotated copy of the Woodburn sale catalogue in the Department amended the attribution from van Borssom to Jan Lievens. This attribution, retained by Waagen, 1857 (see Lit. in Curator's Comment) was corrected by A.M. Hind, in London, 1915 (again, see Lit. in Curator's Comment), who returned the drawing to van Borssom.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0628.14
