
AT-00018542
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A Ship at Sea
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ludolf Backhuysen (Dutch, Emden 1630–1708 Amsterdam)
- Date
- 1650–1708
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (27 x 18.8 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1960
- Accession no.
- 60.79
Provenance
The Metropolitan 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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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00018542
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