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View of the Rotterdam Gate at Delft. Verso: Sketches of Sailboats and Two Seated Figures

Simon de Vlieger
-1653

View of the Rotterdam Gate at Delft. Verso: Sketches of Sailboats and Two Seated Figures

7 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches (194 x 289 mm)
Graphite and gray wash, on paper; verso: graphite.
1979.36

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Gerard B. Lambert, Baron Leon Lambert, John H. Loudon, and John S. Thatcher.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at upper right (turned upside down), "S. de Vlieger / Delft.Rotterd.Poort"; at lower center, "4"; at lower right, above stamped collector's mark of Rech, "376"; and next to this, "150".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PD" centered between chain lines.
Associated names
Waterloo, Anthonie, 1610-1690, Formerly attributed to.
Lambert, Gerard B., Mrs., donor.
Lambert, Leon, Baron, donor.
Loudon, John H., donor.
Thatcher, John S., donor.
Burlett, E., former owner.
Rech, M. K. H., former owner.
Knight, F. W. A., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 220-221.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 327.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department