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Drawing

c.1729 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A large country house surrounded by trees sits on the side of a hill before a panoramic view of open countryside. A man (carrying a scythe) and a woman make their way along a path through fields of grain in the foreground.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
drawn in colours and washed, on paper
Brief description
Drawing, View of Huis Levendaal, near Rhenen, seen from the south, Cornelis Pronk (attributed to), Dutch School, c.1729
Physical description
A large country house surrounded by trees sits on the side of a hill before a panoramic view of open countryside. A man (carrying a scythe) and a woman make their way along a path through fields of grain in the foreground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 139mm
  • Width: 175mm
Dimensions taken from: Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014.
Styles
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 478. Inscribed on old, plain beige mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 101.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects 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.154, pp.204-5
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.478

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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