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Panoramic River Landscape With Smoke Rising From a Fire in the Far Distance

Drawing
17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Landscape, with villages dispersed over an extensive country; Drawn in black chalk, on grey paper, heightened with white.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePanoramic River Landscape With Smoke Rising From a Fire in the Far Distance (published title)
Materials and techniques
Black chalk, with grey wash and opaque white, on faded blue paper; framing line in black ink.
Brief description
Drawing, 'Panoramic River Landscape With Smoke Rising From a Fire in the Far Distance', attributed to Joris van der Haagen; drawn in black chalk, on grey paper, heightened with white; Signed; Dutch School; 17th century.
Physical description
Landscape, with villages dispersed over an extensive country; Drawn in black chalk, on grey paper, heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 127 millimetres
  • Width: 249 millimetres
Style
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on the verso, by Esdaile, in brown ink: at lower left, 1822 WE –– N 59;1 and at lower centre, Waterloo. Inscribed on the old mount, at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 107.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Provenance: William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617), his sale, London, Christie’s, 18–25 June 1840, possibly one of a pair in lot 811: ‘Waterloo. Two landscapes in chalks; on blue paper’ (to ‘Buchanan’ for £0. 8s. 0d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
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. 81, illus. p.128.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.421

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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