This drawing is a design by Jan van de Velde the Younger for one of his prints. Van de Velde is known for his prints of Dutch landscapes. He usually drew directly into the etching ground without any preliminary drawing. Nevertheless, some drawings have survived that he used for his prints, including this ruined landscape. Two walkers can be seen under a monumental gate.
The print served as the title page of a series of twenty-six different landscapes, collected in Amenissimae aliquot regiunculae. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was common to place a gateway on the title pages of books, symbolising the entrance to the world to be revealed in the book. The drawing was made in or before 1616. This date is inscribed in the broken pediment crowning the gate in the first state of the print.
Specifications
| Title | Landscape with Ruins and a Monumental Gateway |
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| Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and blue ink, brown and blue wash |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 132 mm Width 195 mm |
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| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jan van de Velde (II)
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| Accession number | H 175 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1616 |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Internal exhibitions |
Tekeningen uit eigen bezit, 1400-1800 (1952) Van Pisanello tot Cézanne (1992) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Blue wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
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