Specifications
Title | Imaginary View of a Town with the Adoration of the Shepherds |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, blue wash, framing lines with the pen in brown ink, indented for transfer |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 167 mm Width 225 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Hendrick Hondius (I)
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Accession number | MB 1949/T 1 (PK) |
Credits | Purchased 1949 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1949 |
Creation date | in 1618 |
Signature | dated '1618.' and monogrammed 'Hh.' [ligature] (at lower right, in pen and brown ink) |
Watermark | Coat of arms with a walking bear in a diagonal bend, three balls, cross and letter C beneath (108x50mm, on P3-4 from below, below the centre; vV, 7P, heavily cropped folio), similar to Churchill 279 (Arms of the city of Berne, Switserland, Dürring papermakers, doc. 1630). [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
Condition | oxidation spots |
Inscriptions | '871' (verso, at lower left, in pencil, circled), 'Jbj oid' (verso, at lower centre, in blue ink, possibly stamped) |
Mark | L. Deglatigny (L.1768a) |
Provenance | G. Hautmont, his sale, 22 March 1928, no. 88 (acc. to sale catalogue 1937); Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen; his sale, Paris (Ader), 14-15 June 1937, no. 119 (Ff. 700 to Rousselot); Jadwiga Vuyk-Reich Rosenblatt (1886-1950), Amsterdam; acquired by the museum in 1949 |
Exhibitions | Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 103 |
Internal exhibitions |
Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 2) (2015) |
External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Jaarverslag 1949, pp. 4, 18; New Hollstein 1994, p. 14; Orenstein 1996, pp. 52-53, ill. 32 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Blue wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |