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Ludolf Backhuysen
Seascape with an Anchored Ship, 1701
etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch, 1630-1708
Title
  • Seascape with an Anchored Ship
  • Autre marine (Bartsch) (alternate title)
Date 1701
Medium etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 inches (18.1 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (18.4 × 24.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S32
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed Signed, in plate, in reverse, lower right of image: L. BAK
Marks Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (?)
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, in reverse, lower center of image: 1701
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: L. Bakhuizen fec: et exc: cum Privili ord: Holland: et West Frisiae:
Provenance
November 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Baroque Prints: Innovation and Exploration. Exh. cat., Calvin College Center Art Gallery. Grand Rapids, 1983, no. 70.