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Landscape with a Town Across the River: P.1793-1991

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Landscape with a Town Across the River
Nude Sitting Woman Seen from the Back, in a Landscape
Six Landscapes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rysbrack, Pieter

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Unidentified Belgian collector, early to mid nineteenth-century (Lugt 2794); D'Arenberg collection (19th century) (Lugt 567), probably included in the 14 July and following days 1902 sale, Christies, London

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Circa 1675 - 1729

Note

II/II.

School or Style

Dutch

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Plate Height 169 mm Width 222 mm
Sheet Height 171 mm Width 225 mm

Techniques used in production

Etching

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: P. Rysbrack pinx: fecit et excudit.
  • Location: Plate lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: B.6
  • Location: Plate lower left
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: three stars in an oval

  • Text: CH. PROTECTOR MEUS
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Stamped blue ink
  • Type: Collector's mark
  • Text: Hand in a circle
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Type: Stamp
  • Text: 5 (?) No 888
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1793-1991
Primary reference Number: 86192
Bartsch: 6
Illustrated Bartsch: 6
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 6 II/II
Lugt: 567
Lugt: 2794
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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