Herman Saftleven, Figures on a frozen canal

English

Figures on a frozen canal; three men standing talking in the foreground, a woman pushing a child in a sledge and a colf player behind at right and a man and woman at left.

Black chalk, with grey-brown wash drawn on paper by Herman Saftleven (1624 - 1685). Height: 92 millimetres; width: 68 millimetres

The British Museum, location Dutch Roy XVIIc. Registration number 1836,0811.495

Purchased from William Smith, the printseller. Previous owner/ex-collection: John Sheepshanks

Source: Geert & Sara Nijs

Literature

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