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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,2.175
Description
The cottage on a hill. Landscape with a large fallen tree in left foreground, the cottage seen in top left, a farm building next to a pond and a chapel on a hill at right. c.1660 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1660
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
190 millimetres
Width:
273 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is second state with finished sky, for another impression see S.1134. For first state and comment see S.1133.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(3.II)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(I.313.3)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
landscape
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials CMC)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Robert Dighton
(L.727; stolen)
Acquisition date
1799
Acquisition notes
For more information about Dighton's false provenances see An Van Camp, 'Robert Dighton and his spurious collectors' marks on Rembrandt prints in the British Museum, London', in The Burlington Magazine 155 (2013), pp.88-94.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
F,2.175