Anthonie Waterloo (c.1610-1690)

A View of a Tower and Houses abutting the Eastern Part of the Town Walls of Hamburg (recto); A View of an unidentified Village, a river beyond (verso)

细节

Anthonie Waterloo (c.1610-1690)
A View of a Tower and Houses abutting the Eastern Part of the Town Walls of Hamburg (recto); A View of an unidentified Village, a river beyond (verso)
black chalk, grey wash, brown ink framing lines (recto), pen and black ink and touches of brown ink (verso), watermark foolscap, framed
92 x 143 mm.

来源

An unidentified collector's number 'no 172' (verso) on the mount.
A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, 27-9 April 1937, lot 812.
T. Christ; Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1981, lot 46, illustrated (£1,100).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 14 November 1988, lot 68, illustrated (Nlg 8,625).

出版

L. and W. Stubbe, Um 1660 auf Reisen gezeichnet, Anthonie Waterloo (1610-1690), Hamburg, 1983, p. 176 and pp. 46-7, recto illustrated.

拍品专文

Anthonie Waterloo executed a number of drawings of the town walls of Hamburg and its surrrounding area, all very different from each other, which betray his passion for drawing 'naer het Leeve' [after nature] (Stubbe, op. cit., p. 44). This particular drawing belongs to a group of some 33 small, sometimes double-sided drawings of similar size and technique (Stubbe, op. cit., figs. 2-23 and 26-35), many of which carry a similar unidentified collector's number (see Provenance). They probably come from a sketchbook that Waterloo used during his journey to North Germany in circa 1660. The verso of the present drawing could show Altona or Blankenese with the River Elbe.