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

draughtsman: Abraham Rutgers, Utrecht

c. 1680 - c. 1690

pen en penseel en bruine inkt, over grafiet; kaderlijnen in pen en bruine inkt

height 110 mm x width 193 mm

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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