View Over the Rooftops of a Town Seen from Across a Canal
Drawing
17th century (drawn)
17th century (drawn)
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| Place of origin |
Study of the tops of houses in a town, a stream and a wooden bridge in the foreground; Pen and bistre, in outline, drawn with a reed pen.
Object details
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| Title | View Over the Rooftops of a Town Seen from Across a Canal (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Reed pen and brown ink, with brown wash and some opaque white (now oxidized); framing line in graphite. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'View Over the Rooftops of a Town Seen from Across a Canal', attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten, pen and bistre, in outline, drawn with a reed pen; Dutch School; 17th century. |
| Physical description | Study of the tops of houses in a town, a stream and a wooden bridge in the foreground; Pen and bistre, in outline, drawn with a reed pen. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 432. Inscribed on verso of mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 785. |
| 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. |
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| 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. 86, illus. p.134. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | DYCE.432 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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