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A Coastal Landscape in a Storm

Drawing
1540 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coast scene with a mass of high rocks in a bay, a town is built under their shelter, a castle and other buildings are on the summit; numerous vessels in the offing; Drawn in pen and slightly tinted with bistre; Signed Cock, and dated, 1540.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleA Coastal Landscape in a Storm (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, with washes of white bodycolour in the background and on the two ships at right
Brief description
Drawing 'A Coastal Landscape in a Storm', by Matthijs Cock, Flemish school, pen and brown ink, dated 1540
Physical description
Coast scene with a mass of high rocks in a bay, a town is built under their shelter, a castle and other buildings are on the summit; numerous vessels in the offing; Drawn in pen and slightly tinted with bistre; Signed Cock, and dated, 1540.
Dimensions
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Width: 259 mm
Style
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and dated, in brown ink: at lower left, Cock; and at lower right, 1540; and inscribed at lower right, in another hand, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 496.
Gallery label
Matthijs Cock was a central figure in the development of landscape painting in the Netherlands. Influenced by the works of Titian and other Venetian artists, Cock introduced more realism into traditionally fantastical Netherlandish panoramas. He also developed innovative new types of landscape, including village scenes and seascapes like this one.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum, 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. II, cat.462, pp.381-82
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.496

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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