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Four Ships

Four Ships

DrawingsDutch17th-18th century

Four Ships

17th-18th century

Artists

Willem van de Velde IIArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, black chalk, graphite, and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

13.9 x 19.3 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.) mount: 27.4 x 29.8 cm (10 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Rocco Leoni, Paris. Walter Schrott, Mendel, Tyrol (L. 2383, lower left). Unidentified collector, Austria, 1934(?), sold; to Christopher Harris; sold, [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1955, inv. no. A20923], sold; to Fritz B. Talbot, c. 1955, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 1956. NOTE: Information on the transaction at Colnaghi was taken from their stock books, provided by Steven Ongpin.

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