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Object Type
print
Museum number
Sheepshanks.3036
Description
Rocky landscape with three travellers walking past a cliff in right foreground and buildings and a ruined aqueduct among cliffs in middle distance; second state with number; sheet foxed, particularly along left edge. Etching and engraving
Producer name
Formerly attributed to:
Moyses van Wtenbrouck
Published by:
Claes Jansz. Visscher
Circle/School of:
Jan van de Velde II
(Attributed to)
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1630-1670
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
107 millimetres
Width:
161 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For other impressions see S.6885-6887. Described in Hollstein as a free copy after an unknown original by Uyttenbroeck, etched by an unidentified printmaker from the circle of Jan van de Velde.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(unnumbered)
(described on p.250 (Rejected); under Moses van Uyttenbroeck)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(Undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
landscape
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W & G Smith
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Sheepshanks
Acquisition date
1836
Acquisition notes
For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Sheepshanks.3036
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
S.3036