Rocky River Landscape with a Herder with his Cattle and Sheep, Hendrik van der Straaten, c. 1685 - c. 1689

Title(s)

Rocky River Landscape with a Herder with his Cattle and Sheep

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1882-A-180

Artist

• draughtsman: Hendrik van der Straaten

Place

Haarlem (possibly)

Dating

c. 1685 - c. 1689

Physical features

black chalk and graphite, with grey wash; some later additions in pen and brown ink; framing lines in graphite (partially trimmed) and black ink (mostly trimmed)

Material

• paper
• pencil

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 142 mm × width 182 mm

What

• river bank
• herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Acquisition

purchase May-1882

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance