A Hillside Landscape Sketch with Figures and Buildings, Annibale Carracci, c. 1585 - c. 1587

Title(s)

A Hillside Landscape Sketch with Figures and Buildings

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-2018-44(V)

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Famosissmo Disegno di Annibale Carracci’

Artist

• draughtsman: Annibale Carracci

Dating

c. 1585 - c. 1587

Physical features

pen and brown ink

Material

• ink

Technique

pen

Measurements

height 286 mm × width 425 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of Mr and Mrs Van Hulsen-Ognibeni/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 22-Feb-2018

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Landschap met figuren en dieren bij een brug, met rechts een watermolen en een vestingstad in de verte

• The Ellesmere collection of old master drawings, P.A. Tomory, nr. 66.
• Acquisitions : old master drawings, p. 388-389
• Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 102.
• London, Messrs. Woodburn’s Gallery, Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition: A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino & Annibale Carracci, Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1836, no. 81.
• London, P. & D. Colnaghi, A Loan Exhibition of Drawings by the Carracci and other Masters from the Collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, 1955, no. 25 (catalogue by J. B. Shaw).
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne, King’s College, The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, 1961, no. 101 (catalogue by R. Holland).