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Mountain Landscape with a River and Distant City
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This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
Department of Drawings
Possibly Pieter Spiering Delft and The Hague. Private collection United Kingdom sold [private sale via Sotheby's London]; to Maida and George Abrams Boston 1987 (Lugt 3306 without their mark) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 1999
The Maida and George Abrams Collection Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts
Title: Mountain Landscape with a River and Distant City
Description:
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
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