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Distant view of a Dutch town
Attributed to
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den
(Draughtsman)
History note: E. Desperet (Lugt 721), sale, Paris, Clément, 6 June 1865, lot 226 (as Eeckhout); A.W. Mensing, Sale, Amsterdam, 27 April 1937 (as Borssom), bt. Colnaghi's for Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1405a) (£23 5s)
Height: 186 mm
Width: 298 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
(1963)
by
Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Might be by Jacob Esselens [1626-1687]
Grey wash
Brown ink
Watercolour wash
Black chalk
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Black chalk and grey wash, pen and brown ink and watercolour washes, on paper
Accession number: PD.286-1963
Primary reference Number: 4573
Lugt: 721
Lugt: 1405a
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 (2022)
"Distant view of a Dutch town"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4573 Accessed: 2022-06-26 02:35:01
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Accession Number: PD.469-1963
Accession Number: PD.427-1963
Accession Number: PD.112-1964
Accession Number: C.261-1991
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