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A wooded landscape with peasants and cattle: PD.214-1963

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

A wooded landscape with peasants and cattle

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Buytewech, Willem Pietersz.

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Notes

History note: Probably from the collection of Joris Hoefnagel; part of an album made up in England, c.1800 (A. Seilern, Catalogue of Flemish Paintings and Drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, 1955, p. 14, n. 2); with P. & D. Colnaghi, 1948, after which date the album was dismantled and bought from them by Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1405a), November 1949

Measurements and weight

Height: 277 mm
Width: 362 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir

School or Style

Dutch

Materials used in production

Brown wash
Black wash
Graphite
Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Black chalk, graphite and brown wash, group of figures and animals incised for engraving, and blackened, with two lines of black wash bordering it on all sides, on paper

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.214-1963
Primary reference Number: 4387
Lugt: 1405a

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 8 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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