Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Fishing Boats in an Estuary. Verso: preliminary compositional sketch of a riverfront townscape

Attributed to Hendrick Avercamp
1585-1634

Fishing Boats in an Estuary. Verso: preliminary compositional sketch of a riverfront townscape

4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (115 x 184 mm)
Pen and black ink and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink; verso: black chalk.
2010.146

Bequest of Charles Ryskamp.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at lower left, in graphite, vliger fé.
Watermark: Horn with strap in crowned shield (similar to Churchill no. 316), fragment.
Associated names
Spengler, Johan Conrad, 1767-1839, former owner.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department