Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: The Town of Grave
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Josua de Grave, 1643-1712, Dutch
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Title:
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The Town of Grave
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Date:
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1674
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Materials:
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Pen and brown ink with gray wash
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Current Location:
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Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
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Address:
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Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Object ID:
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1988.9.290
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Provenance:
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Rudolf L. Baumfeld Bequest.
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Object Type:
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Drawing
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Scope:
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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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Heading:
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Notes
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Notes:
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Bibliography: Van Hasselt, R.J. "Supplement bijgewerkt tot I. September 1967." Typescript supplement B to van Hasselt 1965.
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Notes:
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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
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Notes:
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Provenance: Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, Los Angeles; Rudolf L. Baumfeld, Los Angeles
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf938nb3bv
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