Landscape with Castle above a Harbor, 1540

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1978.19.2

Artists / Makers

Matthys Cock (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1509 - 1548

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Jowett, Alfred
Smith, Robert H.
Treowen Lord

Exhibition History

1978: NGA Master Drawings 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.