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View of the Buitenhaven of Kampen with the Tower of the Buitenkerk at Centre

Drawing
1621 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The view is on the outskirts of a fortified town. On the left three empty rowing boats are moored along the canal, just below the city walls. At centre, in front of a stone church tower and arched bridge, under which a man rows a boat, is a derrick. A tall church spire rises above the bridge, and on the right two figures stand at the city gate.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleView of the Buitenhaven of Kampen with the Tower of the Buitenkerk at Centre (published title)
Materials and techniques
Graphite, with brown wash; framing line in dark brown ink.
Brief description
Drawing, 'View of the Buitenhaven of Kampen with the Tower of the Buitenkerk at Centre', by Esaias van de Velde, Dutch School, 1621
Physical description
The view is on the outskirts of a fortified town. On the left three empty rowing boats are moored along the canal, just below the city walls. At centre, in front of a stone church tower and arched bridge, under which a man rows a boat, is a derrick. A tall church spire rises above the bridge, and on the right two figures stand at the city gate.
Dimensions
  • Height: 134mm
  • Width: 193mm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed and dated at lower right, in graphite, E.V. VELDE 1621
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 399.
  • Inscribed on piece of card, glued on the old Dyce washed mount at lower right, possibly by Esdaile, in brown ink, E van de Velde; below this, in graphite, 71 (?); above the ink inscription, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 144; and in the same hand, above the piece of card, also in pencil, 144.
Gallery label
This river-view, enlivened with small details, is typical of van de Velde I’s style. A boat passes under a bridge towards the centre of the drawing, leading the eye to the Church of St Nicolaaskerk in the distance. Esaias van de Velde was the most pioneering and influential member of a group of early 17th-century artists who introduced greater naturalism into views of their native Dutch landscape.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Possibly William Esdaile (1758–1837), London;1 Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 211, illus. p.251.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.399

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Record createdSeptember 18, 2009
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