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Ships in Rotterdam Harbor

(Dutch, 1631–1708)
1660-1670
Medium/TechniquePen with brown and grey ink, brush with grey and brown washes, over traces of graphite, with partial framing lines in brown ink. Trimmed to framing lines. Hinged at top to old mount.
DimensionsSheet: 16.4 x 23.2 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Mount: 27.2 x 34.7 cm (10 11/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Florence S. Gerstein
Accession number2005.236
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsRecto, monogrammed on barrel at lower left: L. B. Verso, center, in graphite: blaue/ 1 bistol...... (? illeg.)/ 43-36/ pour cadre Note: old backing sheet has traces of blue wash
ProvenanceR. M. Light and Co., Boston and New York, mid-1960s; Florence S. Gerstein (1926-2004, Boston); her bequest to MFA
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