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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.21
People
Jan de Bisschop, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1628 - 1671 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
A Windmill
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/77885

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
14.2 x 9.9 cm (5 9/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 320 / J. Ruisdael
  • inscription: verso, upper left, black chalk: No 102

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold [possibly through Douwes or Alfred Brod]; to Maida and George S. Abrams, Boston, before 1969

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
1.2018.21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 60, p. xi, repr.
  • Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2005), cat. no. 29, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969
  • Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, 04/08/2005 - 06/19/2005

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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