drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1952,0121.19
- Description
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Two artists on a jetty, sketching; landscape with two figures at a landing stage, one figure seated, view of a town and windmills on the opposite shore.
Pen and brown ink, with graphite and watercolour; framing line in pen and black ink.
Verso: laid down on eighteenth-century backing-paper.
No watermark visible.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 152 millimetres
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Width: 232 millimetres (chain lines horizontal, 24mm 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.11:
It may be that the drawing, though signed, is unfinished: the uncoloured graphite indications in the background are similar to those underlying the washes of colour in other drawings by van Borssom.
LITERATURE :
Lugt, 'Supplément', 1956, p.169, under no.1160 (on provenance).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2003-4 Dec-April, British Museum, NACF exhibition
- Condition
- Generally good, though a little discoloured.
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Acquisition notes
- One of ninety drawings from the Cavendish album, see 1952,0121.75 for a full account of provenance.
G.H. (anon. early eighteenth-century collector [Guillaume Hubert?]; L.1160 and 'Supplément'); Lord James Cavendish? (the drawing was folio 18 of the 'Cavendish Album', probably compiled by or for Lord James Cavendish, the second son of the second Duke of Devonshire, who may have given him some or all of the drawings; some bear the mark of Nicolaes Anthonis Flinck, whose collection was purchased by the 2nd Duke in 1723/4 (see L.959); the album believed in the twentieth century to have been in the library of Lord Chesham, a member of the Cavendish family (See London, 1962, under no.81); L. Colling-Mudge, from whom purchased (Vallentin Fund) for the British Museum with the support of the National Art-Collections Fund, 1952.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1952,0121.19
