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An Italianate Landscape with Ruined Tower

Ascribed to Jan Both
1618?-1652

An Italianate Landscape with Ruined Tower

ca. 1640-1650
7 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches (181 x 267 mm) in decorative frame 13 1/2 x 18 7/16 x 1 3/8 inches
Gray wash with black chalk over graphite.
2017.14

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "fe asselin". Collector's mark at lower right, "[illegible] . L".
Watermark: Foolscap with five points, over cross and three balls (similar to Heawood, no. 1921: 1648-49).
Associated names
Asselijn, Jan, -1652, Formerly attributed to.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 19, repr.
The Thaw collection of master drawings : acquisitions since 2002. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, no. 9, repr.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department