- Museum number
- 1895,0915.1147
- Description
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Dymbkes gate at Anrath; gate at Anrath (near Crefeld), entrance gate to the town beneath a long gate-house, with three figures on the road near the foreground, 1663
Pen and brown ink with brown, yellow-brown and touches of grey wash and graphite; framing lines in pen and dark brown ink and (only partly visible) graphite.
Verso: see Inscriptions.
Watermark: fragment of a foolscap with 3 balls.
- Production date
- 1663
- Dimensions
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Height: 149 millimetres (chain lines vertical, 24/25mm apart)
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Width: 187 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, ‘Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school’, 2010, Lambert Doomer, cat. no.7:
As noted in Doomer's biography (q.v.), the artist's father was born in Anrath, which lies to the north of Mönchengladbach, and members of Doomer's family remained there in the seventeenth century.
Five drawings of Anrath by Doomer are known, the other four now being in Amsterdam ('The 'Blauer Hand' Inn at Anrath' inv.A3530 and 'Barn at Anrath' A3387), Berlin ('Hortges Gate at Anrath' inv.5871)[1], and Frankfurt ('Cemetary at Anrath', inv.3701, Sumowski 480x). These drawings may have been together in the album listed in the posthumous inventory of the artist's estate as the 'Domershoff'.[2]
The views of Anrath are difficult to date - no visits to Anrath by Doomer have been recorded other than in the drawings - but on stylistic grounds it seems likely that they were made at different times. They appear to be earlier than the drawings of 1663 that the artist executed on his Rhine journey, but the present work could have been made at the outset of that voyage.
The British Museum sheet shows the Anrath church spire on the left.[3] The Dymbkes Gate led south-east towards the village of Neersen, and is seen from the Neersen side. The two openings were reserved for wheeled traffic (the larger aperture) and pedestrians respectively. The gate took its name from the Dymbkes family (later Dimbkes), to which it belonged for generations, and was demolished in the 19th century.[4]
NOTES:
[1] Bremen, 1960, p.46, notes that the Berlin drawing (inv.5871) shows the same area as the BM drawing but the view is taken from behind the wall on the right in the BM drawing.
[2] The inventory, preserved in the Amsterdam municipal archives (N.A.A. 3975, acte 52, fol.531) was made after the artist's death on 2 July 1700. Item no.62 is described as: 'Een boek vol tekeningen van den Overleden genaemt Domershoff' (see Dattenberg, 1963 and Schatborn, 1977[I], p.52, notes 7-8). The drawings of Anrath are Schulz, 1974, nos.204-8.
[3] Kricker, 1959, p.291, suggested that the spire was only built in 1664, but Schulz, 1972, points out that documentary evidence for this is lacking (see Lit. below).
[4] Daum, 1978 (see Lit. below).
LITERATURE :
Robinson, 1869/76, no.674/685; London, 1915, p.72, no.4, repr. pl.XXXVI; Dattenberg, 1938, p.391, no.13, repr. fig.8 (with reference to same writer in 'Westdeutsche Landeszeitung', 7 Feb. 1931); Exh. Düsseldorf, 1953, no.36, repr. (reproduction exhibited); Kricker, 1959, p.291; Bremen, 1960, p.46, repr. fig.2 (topography - see n.1 above); Dattenberg, 1962, pp.31-2, repr. p.34, fig.3 (presumably from the album called 'Doomershoff' in Doomer's inventory; another drawing of Anrath in Berlin, inv.5871, and two more in Amsterdam, inv.A3530 and A3387); Dattenberg, 1963, pp.33-7 (perhaps datable 1644); Dattenberg, 1967, p.98, no.111, repr. (quoting Kricker, 1959, but noting that the style suggests an earlier date than 1664); Schulz, 1972, I, pp.45 and 54, II, no.292 (date uncertain of the six Anrath drawings by Doomer; not later than 1663, either before or at start of Rhine journey; documentary evidence for the date of the building of the spire of the church on the left - 1664 according to Kricker - is lacking); Schulz, 1974, no.204, repr. fig.105; Daum, 1978, pp.212-4, repr. fig.2; Sumowski, 1979, etc., II, no.402, repr.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996-7 Sept-Jan, BM, Malcolm Collection, no. 94, repr.
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Cornelis Ploos van Amstel; his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley, etc., 3 March etc., 1800, Kbk E, no.33, bt Bernard, fl.60 with one other, probably Amsterdam, inv.A3530 (Dattenberg, 1967, p.98, argued that the second sheet was the Rijksmuseum drawing, which although not inscribed or marked by Ploos van Amstel was engraved by him, as the work of Gerbrand van den Eeckhout); Muller (according to Leembruggen sale catalogue); Gérard Leembruggen Jz; his sale, Amsterdam, Roos, Engelberts, Lamma and Roos, 5 March, 1866, lot 182, bt Engelberts, fl.185, for Malcolm, who paid ,17-12s-4d; John Malcolm of Poltalloch; purchased with his collection, 1895.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.1147
