drawing
- Museum number
- 1963,1214.20
- Description
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Sea battle with galleys; ships and boats engaged in battle
Pen and grey-brown ink, with grey-brown wash and watercolour
- Production date
- 1620 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 199 millimetres
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Width: 314 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing was acquired as by Pierre Puget, but more recently attributed to Andries van Eertvelt by Gillis Tak Labrijn. The ships look similar to those in Eertvelt's paintings showing sea battles, most of them now in private collections, some in the National Maritime Museum, London.
Literature: E. Schilling, 'Zwei Landschaftszeichnungen von Pierre Puget' Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, NF, XVI, 1974, p.176, repr.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1937, London, Colnaghi.
1964, BM, Recent Acquisitions, no.22
- Acquisition date
- 1963
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1963,1214.20
