DrawingsDutch17th century

A Fortified Seaport

c. 1689

Artists

Jacob van der UlftArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, traces of a framing line in black ink

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

9.9 × 18.9 cm (3 7/8 × 7 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (L. 2231, with his mark). [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, New York]. Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

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