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Rhine Landscape with Boats Ferrying Passengers

Drawing
mid to late 17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Roghman, Roelant (formerly attributed to)
Place of origin
Holland (drawn)

Valley with a lake, among mountains; cottages protected by high rocks on the left, boats crossing the water and landing passengers


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleRhine Landscape with Boats Ferrying Passengers (published title)
Materials and techniques
Black and some white chalk, with grey wash, on blue paper; framing line in dark brown ink
Black Chalk
White Chalk
Grey Wash
Brown Ink
Blue Paper
Drawing
Heightening
Brief description
Drawing 'Rhine Landscape with Boats Ferrying Passengers', Anonymous Dutch(?), chalk with grey wash, mid to late 17th century
Physical description
Valley with a lake, among mountains; cottages protected by high rocks on the left, boats crossing the water and landing passengers
Dimensions
  • Height: 262mm
  • Width: 392mm
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 454 (Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.))
  • Roghman (Inscribed on verso, at lower left centre, possibly by William Esdaile, in brown ink)
  • No 42 (Inscribed on verso, at lower centre, in graphite)
  • 102 (Inscribed on old mount, at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.))
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Possibly William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617), possibly his sale, London, Christie’s, 18–25 June 1840, possibly one of a pair in lot 709: ‘Roland Roghman. A landscape, in chalk; one on blue paper, and one, pen and Indian ink’ (to ‘Morant’ for £0. 17s. 0d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Valley
Lake
Mountains
Boats
Bibliographic references
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. II, cat.625, pp.570-71
  • 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.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.454

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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