View of ships in Amsterdam harbour and on the Ij, with the arsenal (‘s lands zeemagazijn) of the Admiralty of Amsterdam on the left.
Drawing
1773 (made)
1773 (made)
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Sea piece, with a pier on the left, and men working in a large barge carrying stores near several ships at anchor; Pen and bistre, washed with Indian ink; Signed Kobell 1773.
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Title | View of ships in Amsterdam harbour and on the Ij, with the arsenal (‘s lands zeemagazijn) of the Admiralty of Amsterdam on the left. (published title) |
Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with grey wash; framing line in black ink. Signed at upper left, in brown ink,<i> Kobell f 1773</i>; and inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), <i>487</i>. Inscribed on old Dyce ruled mount, in pencil: at lower right, by Dyce, <i>Kobell</i>; above this, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), <i>151</i>; and underneath drawing, at centre, <i>6</i>. |
Brief description | Kobell, Hendrick;View of ships in Amsterdam harbour and on the Ij, with the arsenal (‘s lands zeemagazijn) of the Admiralty of Amsterdam on the left.; Pen and bistre, washed with Indian ink; Signed; Dutch School; 1773. |
Physical description | Sea piece, with a pier on the left, and men working in a large barge carrying stores near several ships at anchor; Pen and bistre, washed with Indian ink; Signed Kobell 1773. |
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Production type | Unique |
Marks and inscriptions | Signed Kobell 1773, top-left corner. |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
Object history | Provenance: Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
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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.100, pp.146-47 |
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Accession number | DYCE.487 |
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Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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