Panoramic River Landscape With Smoke Rising From a Fire in the Far Distance
Drawing
17th century (drawn)
17th century (drawn)
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Landscape, with villages dispersed over an extensive country; Drawn in black chalk, on grey paper, heightened with white.
Object details
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| Title | Panoramic River Landscape With Smoke Rising From a Fire in the Far Distance (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Black chalk, with grey wash and opaque white, on faded blue paper; framing line in black ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Panoramic River Landscape With Smoke Rising From a Fire in the Far Distance', attributed to Joris van der Haagen; drawn in black chalk, on grey paper, heightened with white; Signed; Dutch School; 17th century. |
| Physical description | Landscape, with villages dispersed over an extensive country; Drawn in black chalk, on grey paper, heightened with white. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on the verso, by Esdaile, in brown ink: at lower left, 1822 WE –– N 59;1 and at lower centre, Waterloo. Inscribed on the old mount, at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 107. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Provenance: William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617), his sale, London, Christie’s, 18–25 June 1840, possibly one of a pair in lot 811: ‘Waterloo. Two landscapes in chalks; on blue paper’ (to ‘Buchanan’ for £0. 8s. 0d.); 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. 81, illus. p.128. |
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| Accession number | DYCE.421 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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