View along the City Wall of Utrecht, from the South, with the Smeetoren (‘Blacksmiths’ Tower’) on the Left and the Mariakerk in the Distance on the Right

View along the City Wall of Utrecht, from the South, with the Smeetoren (‘Blacksmiths’ Tower’) on the Left and the Mariakerk in the Distance on the Right

RP-T-1948-409

draftsman (artist): Abraham Rutgers, Utrecht

c. 1680 - c. 1690

pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite; framing line brown ink

height 110 mm x width 193 mm

purchase 1948

Public domain

…; collection Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London and Arlesford (L. 1227); his sale, London (Sotheby’s), 15 June 1891 sqq., no. 550, as Allaert van Everdingen (‘On the Ramparts of Utrecht, pen and bistre, washed’); …; possibly collection Johan II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929), Vaduz;{According to L. 4398.} his grandnephew, Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906-89), Vaduz;{Rotermund-Reynard 2015, p. 137; note RMA.} from whom, through the mediation of the dealer W. Feilchenfeldt, fl. 300, to the museum (L. 2228), 1948;{Zürich 1972, unpag. introduction; Feilchenfeldt 2015, p. 137.}

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