Attributed to Jacob Esselens
      
            1626-1687
      
            Landscape with Trees, Forest and a Stream
18 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (463 x 540 mm)
      
            Black chalk, gray ink wash, with white chalk, on blue-gray paper.
      
            1991.43 
      
            Gift of George and Maida Abrams.
Notes
              Watermark: none visible through lining.
          Inscriptions/Markings
              Apparently signed at the upper left (partially obliterated), in black chalk, "JE" (?).  Inscribed on the verso of the mount, in graphite, at lower right (both upside down), "258859" and "16"; and at upper left, "1671 c / At.c Waterloo / 3.000 F".
          Associated names
              Abrams, George, former owner.
Abrams, Maida, former owner.
          Abrams, Maida, former owner.
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          Century Drawings
              
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