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View of a Farm Alongside a Canal, Opposite a Clump of Trees

Drawing
c.1618-1620 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Velde, Esaias Van De (artist)
Place of origin
Holland (drawn)

On the left side of a canal, with three swimming ducks, is a group of farm buildings, near two empty rowing boats at the water’s edge. On the right, a couple, as well as another figure and a dog, are walking along a path on the opposite side of the canal, past a clump of tall trees. It is unclear what activity the two figures in the middle distance, perhaps standing on wooden planks spanning the canal, are engaged in.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleView of a Farm Alongside a Canal, Opposite a Clump of Trees (published title)
Materials and techniques
slightly drawn in black chalk
Paper
Black Chalk
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing, 'View of a Farm Alongside a Canal, Opposite a Clump of Trees', by Esaias van de Velde, Dutch School, c.1618-1620
Physical description
On the left side of a canal, with three swimming ducks, is a group of farm buildings, near two empty rowing boats at the water’s edge. On the right, a couple, as well as another figure and a dog, are walking along a path on the opposite side of the canal, past a clump of tall trees. It is unclear what activity the two figures in the middle distance, perhaps standing on wooden planks spanning the canal, are engaged in.
Dimensions
  • Full sheet height: 140mm
  • Full sheet width: 180mm
  • Design image height: 128mm
  • Design image width: 170mm
Dimensions taken from Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. no. 209, illus. 250.
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 412; on verso, in an old hand, at lower centre, in brown ink, a6 (or i6 or 16).
  • Inscribed on mount, in pencil: at lower right, by Dyce, Van Goyen; and to the left of this, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 164.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823), London; William Esdaile (1758–1837), London, his sale, London, Christie’s, 18–25 June 1840, one of two in lot 915: ‘J. van Goyen. Ruined buildings, in colours; and a sketch, in pen’ (with lot 916 to ‘Sheath’ for £0. 4s. 0d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Views
River
Village
Trees
Boats
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. no. 209, illus. 250.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.412

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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