Herdsmen and Their Flocks Before a Dutch Farmstead Among Trees
Watercolour
1783 (made)
1783 (made)
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At centre is a brick-built, tiled-roof farmhouse with, on its gable end, an open window below a crane for hoisting furniture to the upper storey; beyond the farmhouse to the right is a hay barn, and to its left (behind the old oak tree) is a thatched and clapboard stable. At left a peasant carrying a barrel walks along a path from the farm towards a pair of herders with their dog in the centre foreground. The older herdsman, wearing a hat, is pointing into the distance and talking to a seated itinerant hawker with a covered basket of wares at his left. Flocks of cattle, sheep and goats move along the country road to the right, accompanied by another herder, in the direction of a horse-drawn cart coming towards them.
Object details
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| Title | Herdsmen and Their Flocks Before a Dutch Farmstead Among Trees (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, 'Herdsmen and Their Flocks Before a Dutch Farmstead Among Trees', by Jacob Cats, Dutch School, 1783. |
| Physical description | At centre is a brick-built, tiled-roof farmhouse with, on its gable end, an open window below a crane for hoisting furniture to the upper storey; beyond the farmhouse to the right is a hay barn, and to its left (behind the old oak tree) is a thatched and clapboard stable. At left a peasant carrying a barrel walks along a path from the farm towards a pair of herders with their dog in the centre foreground. The older herdsman, wearing a hat, is pointing into the distance and talking to a seated itinerant hawker with a covered basket of wares at his left. Flocks of cattle, sheep and goats move along the country road to the right, accompanied by another herder, in the direction of a horse-drawn cart coming towards them. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s inv. no.), 561.82; on verso: signed and dated at lower left, in brown ink, Jb Cats inv et fec 1783. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
| Object history | John Jones (1800–82), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum, 1882. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. I, Cat. 44, illus. p.88. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 561-1882 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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