Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Josua de Grave, 1643-1712, Dutch
Title:
The Town of Grave
Date:
1674
Materials:
Pen and brown ink with gray wash
Current Location:
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Address:
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Object ID:
1988.9.290
Provenance:
Rudolf L. Baumfeld Bequest.
Object Type:
Drawing
Scope:
While de Grave depicts the town in a traditional cityscape, the presence of the Dutch army is duly indicated by the boat in the center filled with several small figures and two cannons as well as two additional cannons standing on the shore.
De Grave worked very closely with two other artists, Valentin Klotz and Barnardus Klotz. The three traveled together throughout the Netherlands, sketching cities and towns and often drawing the same sites and copying one another's drawings. Between 1674 and 1676 they traveled with the Dutch army, sketching the towns they passed through and the activities of the troops at rest.
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Notes
Notes:
Bibliography: Van Hasselt, R.J. "Supplement bijgewerkt tot I. September 1967." Typescript supplement B to van Hasselt 1965.
Notes:
Inscription: Recto, inscribed "J de Grave fecit" at l.r., dated and titled ("De Stadt Grave") in another hand on mount; Baumfeld's stamp at l.r. of mount; Verso, Baumfeld's stamp near c. of mount
Notes:
Provenance: Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, Los Angeles; Rudolf L. Baumfeld, Los Angeles
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf938nb3b v

The Town of Grave