View in Amsterdam with Canal Houses and the Westerkerk on the Prinsengracht
Watercolour
1725-68 (made)
1725-68 (made)
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Watercolour depicting a view in Amsterdam, showing the Prinsengracht and Westerkerk.
Object details
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| Title | View in Amsterdam with Canal Houses and the Westerkerk on the Prinsengracht (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour, over graphite or black chalk; framing line in brown ink |
| Brief description | Watercolour, 'View in Amsterdam with Canal Houses and the Westerkerk on the Prinsengracht', by Jan de Beijer. Dutch, ca. 1725-68. |
| Physical description | Watercolour depicting a view in Amsterdam, showing the Prinsengracht and Westerkerk. |
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| Gallery label | Jan de Beijer sketched views like this in the open air during the summer. Later he would work up the drawings in his studio. De Beijer specialised in topographical views of the Netherlands and Germany. He made numerous views of Amsterdam like this one, sometimes repeating the same scene several times with altered light effects to suggest different times of day. |
| Object history | C.E. Appleby (possibly 1835–90), London; from whom purchased with other pictures by the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1 June 1885 for £6. 10s. 0d. |
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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. 12, illus. p.12. |
| Other number | E.5673-1910 - Cancelled number |
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| Accession number | 223-1885 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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