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Town Square with Fair
Johannes Huibert Prins (1757–1806), watercolour, pen and brown and grey ink, over pencil, c. 1790
Johannes Huibert Prins compiled this majestic imaginary town square by combining various actual and fictitious buildings. He drew the figures with meticulous precision, as well as the façades, the cobblestones and even the grouting of the brickwork. Some contemporaries thought the detail a little overdone. For example, one critic wrote in 1817 that Prins had rendered the masonry too elaborately and that it never really looked like that when reduced in size.
- Artwork typedrawing, aquarel
- Object numberRP-T-1968-92
- Dimensionsheight 537 mm x width 680 mm
- Physical characteristicspen in bruin en grijs, penseel in kleuren in waterverf, potlood