View of Alkmaar with Boats

1600s

Maker Unknown

Drawings

View of Alkmaar with Boats, 1600s. Netherlands, 17th century. Point of brush and gray ink and brush and gray wash with traces of pen and black ink over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 13.8 x 20.4 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.538

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Maker Unknown
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: point of brush and gray ink and brush and gray wash with traces of pen and black ink over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Medium: point, brush, gray, ink, wash, traces, pen, black, over, graphite, framing, lines, brown
Dimensions: Sheet: 13.8 x 20.4 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: VERSO, upper right, in graphite: 25[n?] ; upper right, in graphite: 105 [circled] ; left center, in graphite: [illegible] 300 - (underlined, mostly erased); [Fb?]0 ; B[illegible] / 502 [slash part of inscription] ; center, in graphite: A520[7?] ; lower left, in graphite, beneath CMA stamp: [illegible]e ; lower left, in graphite: N65 [illegible] ; in brown ink: p 5 ; in graphite: 15; in black ink: No 31. ; lower center, in graphite: Ludolf Backhuysen. / Collections Sybouts, Lembruggen / et Gigoux.
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1929.538
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Exhibitions: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Dutch Painting, The Golden Age, Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
Rights Statement: CC0