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Ships at Sea
Inscriptions
VERSO, lower center, in brown ink: Jan Eraht[?]1315 [?, upside down]
Exhibition history
Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955). Seventeenth Century Dutch Paintings and Drawings. Akron Art Museum (organizer) (October 10-November 11, 1956). Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). Gallant Ships and Bully Boys. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-August 3, 1986).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ludolf Backhuysen (Dutch, 1631–1708)
- Date
- 1600s
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash, with brush and grey ink; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 12.3 x 17.1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Accession no.
- 1954.702
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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