Lot 191: Jacob van der Ulft Gorinchem 1627 - 1689 Noordwijk , italianate landscape with a castle pen and brown ink and wash

pen and brown ink and wash

measurements note 119 by 208mm

Burgomeester ter Smitten, Amsterdam (Konstboek N, no. 619), according to an 18th or early 19th-century inscription on the mount

The collector referred to in the note on the mount must be Hendrik Tersmitten Jr., whose extensive collection was sold in Amsterdam on 23 September 1754 and the following days. Another version of this drawing, with different staffage, is contained in the album of drawings by Jan de Bisschop and Jacob van der Ulft, in the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth.υ1 The Chatsworth drawing, which has been dated circa 1688, in inscribed on the verso: Un Castello Qu?era di Roma, suggesting that the building seen here is a real castle near Rome. 1 See M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings, 5 vols., Turin/London/Venice 2002, vol. III, no. 1421, reproduced.