Meervliet, the Summer Home of Amsterdam’s Mayor Lucas Trip
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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 14,1 x 19,5 cm h x w: Passepartout 55 x 42 cm
Inventory numberNMH 334/1973
Other titlesTitle (sv): Meervliet, Borgmästare Lucas Trips sommarhus Title (en): Meervliet, the Summer Home of Amsterdam’s Mayor Lucas Trip Original title: Meervliet
DescriptionDescription: Pen and black ink, brown wash, 141 x 195 mm. Ruled framing lines in black ink. Vertical fold in the centre. Traced for transfer, with some traces of red chalk on the verso. No watermark. Chain lines: 25 mm. Mark of J. G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a). Inscribed on the verso, in pen and brown ink, Meervliet, de buyteplaets van de Hr / Lucas Trip, Burgemeester van Amsterdam. Preparatory drawing for an etching in the series Het Zegepralent Kennemerland, Plate 42, published in Amsterdam by Andries and Hendrik de Leth, with short descriptions by Matthaeus Brouerius van Nidek. The date of the volume is not known, but is generally put in the period 1727–32. The drawing is in reverse with respect to the print, and the staffage has been modified. The following plate in the series (Plate 43) shows Lucas Trip’s house from the opposite side. This and the following drawing, catalogued as anonymous by Bartsch, were attributed to Moucheron by the present author on the basis of stylistic similarities to drawings like the Palace Garden by a Lake in the Louvre. These two drawings, and two more in the Rijksarchief in Haarlem, were attributed to Moucheron, with some reservations, by Wedde. All four drawings are reproduced in Het Zegepralent Kennemerland, but Wedde observes that many artists made drawings for topographical prints “executed in a homogenous style”. Wedde found no indication of the authorship of the drawings, but the title of the volume says that they were “naar’t leven getekend en in’t koper gebracht door Hendrik de Leth”. A cautious interpretation would be that De Leth merely engraved a set of drawings made from life, but more likely it means that they were both drawn and transferred to the copper by him. Hendrik de Leth’s name appears on the old mount of the following drawing. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 506]
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TechniqueDrawing, Wash drawing
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