Style of Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)
Recreation on the ice outside a large town c.1615-75
Pen and brown ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over traces of graphite | 9.8 x 13.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906509
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A drawing of a wide view across a frozen inlet upon which numerous people are skating and sledging. In the middleground is a small island with a gibbet, and across the river in the background there is a large town.
Provenance
First recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 118: '7. More in the same stile of drawing [as 42 by Avercamp previously listed], of Landscapes and Sea Pieces')
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over traces of graphite
Measurements
9.8 x 13.2 cm (sheet of paper)
