River Landscape With Sailing Boats and A Man Gathering Peat
Drawing
late 18th century
late 18th century
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Mouth of a river, with shipping in the offing; a man dredging in the foreground on the left; Drawn in pen, washed with Indian ink.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | River Landscape With Sailing Boats and A Man Gathering Peat (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and light brown ink, with grey wash; thick framing line in dark brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'River Landscape With Sailing Boats and A Man Gathering Peat', by Anthonij Erkelens, Dutch school, late 18th century |
| Physical description | Mouth of a river, with shipping in the offing; a man dredging in the foreground on the left; Drawn in pen, washed with Indian ink. |
| Dimensions |
|
| Style | |
| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 416. Inscribed on fragment of old mount glued onto present mount, at lower right, by Dyce, in pencil, Van Goyen ?; and at lower right of the present mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, also in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 166. |
| 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. |
| 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. 58, illus. p.103. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | DYCE.416 |
About this object record
Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.
You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.
Suggest feedback
You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.
Suggest feedback
| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
| Record URL |
Download as: JSONIIIF Manifest
