View of an Encampment of the Army of Willem III

anonymous, 1675 - 1725

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1898-A-3769
  • Dimensionsheight 146 mm x width 175 mm
  • Physical characteristicspoint of brush and grey ink, with grey wash, over traces of graphite; framing line in grey ink

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    View of an Encampment of the Army of Willem III

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1898-A-3769

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Creation

  • Creation

    • draftsman (artist): anonymous
    • after drawing by Josua de Grave
    • draftsman (artist): Josua de Grave [rejected attribution]

  • Dating

    1675 - 1725

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    point of brush and grey ink, with grey wash, over traces of graphite; framing line in grey ink

  • Dimensions

    height 146 mm x width 175 mm

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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1898-12

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Jonkheer Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers (1843-1916), The Hague, from whom, to the museum (L. 2228), together with 14 other drawings, fl. 95:60:- for all, 1898

Documentation

  • R.J.G.M. van Hasselt, Drie tekenaars van topografische prenten in Brabant en elders: Valentijn Klotz, Josua de Grave en Constantijn Huygens Jr., uit: Jaarboek / Oudheidkundige Kring 'De Ghulden Roos', Roosendaal, 25, 1965, pagina 145-192 niet vermeld

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anonymous, after Josua de Grave

View of an Encampment of the Army of Willem III

1675 - 1725

Inscriptions

  • inscribed by the artist, in grey ink: lower left, int Leger . 1675

  • inscribed on verso, in graphite: lower right, J de Grave; lower left, 37

  • stamped on verso: centre left, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

watermark: none

Condition

Some thinner spots scattered throughout the sheet; brown stain upper left

Provenance

…; collection Jonkheer Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers (1843-1916), The Hague, from whom, to the museum (L. 2228), together with 14 other drawings, fl. 95:60:- for all, 1898

Object number: RP-T-1898-A-3769

Entry

This drawing is likely a copy after one of Josua de Grave’s drawings of the encampments of the Dutch army during their 1675 campaign to Walloon Brabant and Henegouwen (a province of Walloon and Belgium). The Rijksmuseum’s collection includes twenty-four of drawings by De Grave of this campaign, but also a handful of possible copies (e.g. inv. nos. RP-T-1898-A-3770, RP-T-00-132, RP-T-00-140, RP-T-00-141 and RP-T-00-144). The whereabouts of the original drawing after which the present sheet was drawn are unknown. While the composition and subject-matter mimic the formulaic approach by De Grave (placing a group of tents with figures and horses in front of a group of trees in a landscape), the execution is different. The copyist outlined the composition in graphite and finished the drawing with grey ink and minimal washes, this in contrast to De Grave, who predominantly used brown ink for his outlines for this series.

Carolyn Mensing, 2021

Citation

C. Mensing, 2021, 'anonymous, View of an Encampment of the Army of Willem III, 1675 - 1725', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200140109

(accessed 26 February 2026 19:52:19).