Farmyard with a cottage next to a barn with a dovecote
Drawing
17th century (made)
17th century (made)
| Artist/Maker |
A close-up view of a ramshackle cottage in a farmyard strewn with planks from the aging structure. A chicken pecks near one of the planks, and there is an abandoned metal pot on the ground. The adjoining barn has a precarious dovecote in the upper storey.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Farmyard with a cottage next to a barn with a dovecote (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Black chalk, with grey wash; framing line in brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, Farmyard with a cottage next to a barn with a dovecote, Cornelis Saftleven (attributed to), Dutch School, 17th century |
| Physical description | A close-up view of a ramshackle cottage in a farmyard strewn with planks from the aging structure. A chicken pecks near one of the planks, and there is an abandoned metal pot on the ground. The adjoining barn has a precarious dovecote in the upper storey. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on verso, at lower left: in black chalk, o (next to a long vertical line) / f.E:; and below this, in brown ink (trimmed), No 1954(?). |
| Object history | Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (NAL dry stamp on recto and Dalton Bequest purple ink stamp on verso; neither in Lugt), 1900. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 175, illustrated. p. 226 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.956-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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