Hilly Landscape with Ships
c. 1570
Artist, Italian, 1512 - 1600
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 21.5 x 29 cm (8 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
mount: 24.3 x 30.6 cm (9 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2010.93.13
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
A. Bruce Thompson Album (dispersed at Sotheby's, London, 1960, lots 1-12); (Helene Seiferheld, New York). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; bequest to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings: Form and Function, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1974, no. 29 (as attributed to Messer Ulisse Severino da Cingoli, titled A Cloister on the Wooded Slope of a Hill).
1991
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 9.
2012
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 32-33, no. 5 (entry by Oliver Tostmann).
Bibliography
1969
Bolten, Jaap. "Messer Ulisse Severino da Cingoli, a Bypath in the History of Art." Master Drawings 7, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 143, no. 115.
Inscriptions
by artist, upper left in pen and brown ink: 3
Wikidata ID
Q64572095