Landscape with Castle above a Harbor

1540

Matthys Cock

Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1509 - 1548

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor and white heightening on light brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 17.3 x 26.1 cm (6 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.19.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lord Treowen; (sale, Burton, Knowles & Co, Gloucester, 20-28 June 1934). Mr. Alfred Jowett, Killinghall. (Sale, Christie's, London, 27 November 1973, no. 203). Purchased 1978 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 28.

Bibliography

1938

  • Popham, Arthur. "Mr. Alfred Jowett's Collection of Drawings at Killinghall." Apollo 27 (March 1938):159, p.136.

1973

  • Christie's, Lond.: 11/27/73, 203.

Inscriptions

lower center: 1540 Cock fecit; in later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Cocq; center verso: 19

Watermarks

(cf. Briquet 1788)

Wikidata ID

Q64608528


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