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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.120
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Italian Landscape with Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298824

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash, gray ink, and gray wash over traces of graphite on white antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
24.5 × 20.2 cm (9 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: former mount, adhered to mat, graphite: In the last century twas in Tuckers cabinet / at Exeter, England / then after 1800 in Warren's / & purchased by me out of the last named / since 1840 / JWR

    Came by way of Amsterdam / from the collection of the Lord Pensionary at Leyden / perhaps by Asselyn or one of the Van de Velde's
  • watermark: none
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 479. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Lord Pensionary, Leiden. Possibly Richard Tucker, Exeter, England. Possibly John Collins Warren, Boston, Massachusetts. John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1840, bequest to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1892, gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

NOTE: The identity of the Lord Pensionary of Leiden remains unknown, there were only four men who held this position from 1700-1780: Joost van Heemskerk (1698-1701); Pieter Marcus (1702-1744); David van Roijen (1749-1753); and Jan Davidsz. van Roijen (1753-1780). See M. Prak, Gezeten burgers: De elite in een Hollandse stad Leiden 1700-1780, The Hague: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1985.

The provenance is taken from an inscription on the old mat which may be in Randall's hand.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.120
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 549, p. 290

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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