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A Dutch ship close hauled in a breeze
Draughtsman: Backhuysen, Ludolf
History note: Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600); Max Bonn sale Sotheby's, 15 February 1922, lot 62; Sir Bruce Ingram; L.C.G. Clarke
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 209 mm
Width: 159 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Previously attributed to Willem II van de Velde
Support composed of paper ( laid down on card)
Drawing : Pen and brown ink, on paper laid down on card with a washed border
Accession number: PD.29-1961
Primary reference Number: 4195
Lugt: 2600
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A Dutch ship close hauled in a breeze" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4195 Accessed: 2023-03-21 09:08:06
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Accession Number: PD.812-1963
Accession Number: 54
Accession Number: PD.566-1963
Accession Number: PD.789-1963
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