Anthonie Waterloo (Lille 1609-1690 Utrecht)

Houses near Altona (recto); A building on a rugged outcrop (verso) (pl.13)

Details

Anthonie Waterloo (Lille 1609-1690 Utrecht)
Houses near Altona (recto); A building on a rugged outcrop (verso) (pl.13)
signed with monogram 'AW' and with inscription 'te Altena'
black chalk, point of the brush and grey ink, grey wash (recto); brush and grey and brown wash (verso)
3 5/8 x 5½ in. (9.2 x 14.1 cm.)

Literature

L. and W. Stubbe, Van 1660 auf Reisen gezeichnet: Anthonie Waterloo 1610-1690, Hamburg, 1983, pp. 94-5, no. 180, fig. 29.
J. Shoaf Turner, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, under no. 330.

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Lot Essay

One of a series of some thirty views of Hamburg and its surroundings of similar format and technique made during Waterloo's journey to Northern Germany in circa 1660, when he also visited Kiel and Danzig. In all some fifty drawings from this journey are known, mostly published by W. and L. Stubbe in 1983.

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