Italianate Landscape With Scattered Ruins and A Man Driving a Pack Mule

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Artist/Maker	Poelenburch, Cornelis Van
Place of origin	Holland

Landscape with the extensive ruins of a temple, which are partially hidden by trees, and a range of mountains in the distance. A man driving a laden donkey is on the right; Drawing with wash, on paper.

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Drawing
Title	Italianate Landscape With Scattered Ruins and A Man Driving a Pack Mule (published title)
Materials and techniques	drawing with wash, on paper Paper Drawing Wash Technique
Brief description	Drawing, 'Italianate Landscape With Scattered Ruins and A Man Driving a Pack Mule', by Cornelis van Poelenburch, Dutch School, 17th century
Physical description	Landscape with the extensive ruins of a temple, which are partially hidden by trees, and a range of mountains in the distance. A man driving a laden donkey is on the right; Drawing with wash, on paper.
Dimensions	Height: 202 millimetres Width: 310 millimetres
Style	Dutch School
Production type	Unique
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with museum's Dyce inv. no.), 426; on verso, in graphite: at lower left, f 2420---; and next to this, in another hand, No 226. Inscribed on a piece of card from former mount, glued onto present mount, at lower left, in brown ink, C Poelemberg; and numbred in graphite, turned 90 degrees to the right, 226; and at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce's original inv. no.), 128.
Credit line	Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history	Collection-Marquis Legoy, and another unknown.
Subjects depicted	Ruins Temple Mountains Man Donkey
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. 147, illus. p.196.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	DYCE.426

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Record created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O240933/italianate-landscape-with-scattered-ruins-drawing-poelenburch-cornelis-van/

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