1.2018.159: River Valley with Hill and Water Pump
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.2018.159
- People
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Herman Saftleven, Dutch (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609 - 1685 Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Title
- River Valley with Hill and Water Pump
- Other Titles
- Former Title: River Landscape, Peasants ouside a Cottage to the Left
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/360597
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink, black chalk, blue-green transparent watercolor and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 27.4 cm (7 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: from old mat, now removed, typewritten text: HERMAN SAFTLEVEN / Rotterdam 1609 - Utrecht 1685 / River Landscape, Peasants out- / side a Cottage to the Left. / Black chalk, colored washes. / Signed in brown in. [sic] 197 x 277mm / Coll: E. Calando, Martin Hardie.
- inscription: center, brown ink: HS
- inscription: verso, upper left, on hinge, brown ink: 207703
- inscription: verso, lower right, on old hinge, graphite: CH/-1-A16153
- inscription: verso, lower irght, on old hinge, green crayon: 9
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, red ink: A C [inside of rectangle] [Lugt 88a, mark of A. Chariatte]
- watermark: center of sheet: Arms of Amsterdam
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- A. Chariatte, London (Lugt 88a). E. Calendo. Martin Hardie. Sold [through Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, May 3, 1976, lot 211]; to [Adlophe Stein], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 1.2018.159
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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