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A drawing of two wooden houses with waterwheels opposite to each other in the middle of the forest right next to a lake

A drawing of two wooden houses with waterwheels opposite to each other in the middle of the forest right next to a lake. Tall and bushy trees are surrounding the area where the houses are located. A lake is located right before the houses. A small cottage is shown on the right side of the drawing.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.252
People
Anthonie Waterloo, Dutch (Lille, France 1609 - 1690 Utrecht, Netherlands)
Title
Grist Mills Near Hamburg
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1660
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212695

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash with black chalk and white opaque watercolor over black chalk and traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
44.3 x 55.8 cm (17 7/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left, black chalk: 20-
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: Anthony Waterloo / No 14/07
  • inscription: verso, brown ink, in the artist's hand: Pooltter moolens 't Steen [h?s?]omert buyten Hamborch [Grist mills near Hamburg]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, reddish brown stamp: [antelope or deer, unidentified, not in Lugt]
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 60000--
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 41
  • incipit: upper left, brown ink: 1...70 [? cut off]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified collector (with his mark; not in Lugt). Schindler collection. [R. E. Lewis, San Francisco.] [Sotheby's, London, December 13, 1973, lot 160]; to [Baskett & Day, London]; sold to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, verso, lower right), 1974; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2008.252.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.252
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • H. Voellner, "Danzig-Olivia, Schloss", Fürher der Staatlichen Landesmuseums für Danziger Geschichte (Danzig, 1938), vol. 1, p. 37
  • Exhibition of Thirty Old Master Drawings of the Northern Schools, auct. cat., Baskett and Day (London, England, 1974), cat. no. 20, n.p., repr. fig. 20
  • Franklin W. Robinson, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1977), cat. no. 49, pp. xiv and 53, repr.
  • Lotte Stubbe and Wolf Stubbe, Um 1660 auf Reisen gezeichnet Anthonie Waterloo 1610-1690: Ansichten aus Hamburg, Altona, Blackenese, Holstein, Bergedorf, Lüneburg und Danzig-Oliva, Christians Verlag (Hamburg, Germany, 1983), pp. 20, 165, 184, repr. pl. 58
  • William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 42, pp. 102-3, repr.
  • Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 2, p. 613, under cat. no. 1164 (n. 1)
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 174, 233, repr. p. 176 as fig. 12, detail repr. p. 177 as fig. 14

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Thirty Old Master Drawings of the Northern Schools, Baskett and Day, London, 04/02/1974 - 04/26/1974
  • Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/30/1977 - 03/13/1977; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 04/01/1977 - 05/15/1977; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 06/01/1977 - 07/15/1977
  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992
  • Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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