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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.61
People
Carel Frederik Bendorp the Elder, Dutch (Sas van Gent, Netherlands 1736 - 1814 Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Title
Venetian Scene (copy after A. Stork)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1796
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312482

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash over black chalk on two adhered sheets of off-white antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
actual: 30.7 x 39.3 cm (12 1/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, gray ink: A: Stork pinxit K. F. Bendorp del 1796.
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: 336 [encircled]
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: A. Stork. / Amsterdam 1650-1708
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: Smithson Col
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: N. 10
  • watermark: unidentified [fleur de lys atop a crowned shield with D+G B]

    Beta will not be made. Mount is too thick. Perhaps x-ray?
  • collector's mark: verso, center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 9 [crossed out] / 7. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: rt [overlined]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Smithson*. John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1892, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

*From annotation on mat in JWR'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
1898.61
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. 545, p. 289

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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