Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Pieter Withoos, c. 1687 - c. 1692

Identification

Title(s)

Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1900-A-4492

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Pieter Withoos

Dating

c. 1687 - c. 1692

Material and Technique

Physical features

watercolour, with opaque watercolour, over traces of graphite (?); framing line in black ink over black chalk

Material

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 191 mm × width 220 mm

Subject

What

shore-birds and wading-birds: snipe

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 31-Dec-1900

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25-26 June 1895, no. 752, fl. 10, to the dealer C.F. Roos (Amsterdam) for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD.} from whom, fl. 11:52:-, to the museum (L. 2228), 1900

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Persistent URL

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