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Landscape with a mounted traveller on a roadway leading to a village

Drawing
17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Schalcke, Cornelis Symonsz. Van Der (artist)

A roadway zigzags from the foreground into the distance, over a ridge of dunes, where cottage rooftops can be seen. A mounted traveller, in profile to the right, disappears over the ridge towards the houses.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleLandscape with a mounted traveller on a roadway leading to a village (published title)
Materials and techniques
Black chalk; trace of framing line in black chalk at top and bottom.
Paper
Black Chalk
Indian Ink
Drawing (Image-Making)
Tinting
Brief description
Drawing, Landscape with a mounted traveller on a roadway leading to a village, Conrelis Symonsz. van der Schalcke, Dutch School, 17th century
Physical description
A roadway zigzags from the foreground into the distance, over a ridge of dunes, where cottage rooftops can be seen. A mounted traveller, in profile to the right, disappears over the ridge towards the houses.
Dimensions
  • Height: 173mm
  • Width: 263mm
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed at lower left, in black chalk, P. van der Schalk (possibly replicating traces of an original signature)
  • inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 545
  • at lower left, 54 Ld Spencer 1811; and at lower centre, P Vander Schalk fld 17 Centy; and on another separate piece of card glued on at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 149
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
the Hon. John Spencer (1708–46), AlthorpHouse, Northants; by descent to the Earls of Spencer, Althorp House (L. 1530); William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617 at lower left); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Trees
Road
Horse
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.180, p.230
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.545

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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