Lot 2: * ABRAHAM CASEMBROT BRUGES CIRCA 1593 - 1658 MESSINA

A GALLEY WITH HER OARS CAST OUT

measurements note
215 by 276mm; 8 1/2 by 11in

pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk

PROVENANCE

Pacetti (L.2057);
from whom acquired in 1844 by Dr. F. Waagen, for the Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museum, Berlin (L.1632);
by whom deaccessioned (L.2482);
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a);
bears another unidentified collector's mark, verso (not in Lugt)

NOTE

Two other studies of boats by Casembrot, of similar size to this and sharing the same Pacetti/Berlin/Ingram provenance, were sold London, Sotheby's, 27 June 1974, lots 194 and 201.