DrawingsDutch17th century

View of Weesp

c. 1649-1653

Artists

Simon de VliegerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk, gray wash, some incised lines in lower half of added strip at right, on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

39.3 x 67.9 cm (15 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)

Provenance

[Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 18 November 1985, lot 127, repr.] sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, inv. no. 2008.250.

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