drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5214.150
- Description
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Cart-horses feeding outside a country inn; unyoked before the cart, in front of a low thatched inn, the two drivers talking at the door; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings
Pen and brown ink and watercolour.
Verso: blank (apart from a splash of brown wash).
Watermark: fragment of a foolscap.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres (chain lines vertical, 24mm apart.)
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Width: 172 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, 'Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school', 2010, attributed to Anthonie van Borssom, cat. no.22:
The attribution to van Borssom has not previously been questioned. The penwork in the eaves of thatch and the foliage resembles his, but the draughtsmanship in the horses, cart and figures is undistinguished, the perspectival recession poorly understood and the composition is uncharacteristic of him. Some doubt therefore seems appropriate.
LITERATURE :
London, 1915, p.65, no.15; Sumowski, II, 1979, p.672, under no. 314, no.3 (groups with works considered late).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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No exhibitions recorded.
- Condition
- Slight general discolouration; some dirt and stains; somewhat trimmed.
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5214.150
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: T,10.150
