- Upper right corner lacks sm. portion; repaired tear in right margin; yellowed; some sm. (retouched) specks; verso w. gluestains along blank margins.
= View from the Korte Spaarne in the direction of the centre, with the Spaarne in the foreground, the opening to the Bakenessergracht on the right and the St. Bavo church and the Waag in the distance.
- Vague remnants of former mount on verso; sl. fingersoiled, mostly along edges.
= With contemporary annotation on verso: "BredeRoode huijs Haarlem" in pen and ink and "A Milatz" in pencil.
- Some very vague foxing; a few professionally repaired small tears in upper margin; sm. spot w. traces of silverfish activity.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXII.
- Probably laid down, w. brown staining in the sky from mount and glue.
= Perhaps after the Raid on the Medway. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXII.
= With "Heusden 1773" in pen and ink on verso (gate unidentified and artist uncertain). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIII.
= Attribution to Hennequin in pencil on verso.
= Flemish goldsmith and painter, active in Antwerp.
AND 5 others, i.a. (the Rape of Europa) and (Polyphemus the Cyclops playing the pan flute), both by anonymous artists.
= The artist was a chemist who entered King's College in 1877.
AND 2 other watercolours.
- Brownish stains in left part; sl. frayed; trifle yellowed.
= With the collector's mark of Albert van Loock on verso (Lugt 3751).
- Doubled; mounted on paper along outer margins on verso; four pinholes in outer corners; browned on verso; right lower corner restored; upper corners repaired.
= "Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), a landscape painter and engraver, studied architecture in Rouen before travelling to Paris. (...). Through the Marquis de Marigny he was sent to the French Academy in Rome in 1768, and the following year made his first trip to Napels and Sicily in the entourage of the Marquis d'Havrincourt. After his return to Paris in 1772 he exhibited his Italian views, which were well enough received that he determined on a second trip to Sicily. This he made from 1776 to 1779, including in his investigations Malta and Lipari. Here he assumed the role of observer, artist, and naturalist, amassing copious notes on new material. Claude-Henri Watelet and the director-general of the Gobelins Manufacture, d'Angivillers, were helpful in making this second trip possible. To finance it, Houel sold drawings that he had made in Italy when he returned to France. Forty-six were purchased by the king, and over five hundred by Catherine II of Russia. At this time he determined to publish the material he had accumulated on the voyage. (...) Houel was one of the first French artists to discover the antique ruins still visible in Sicily." (Millard, French Books, 80, note).
- Doubled; mounted on paper along outer margins on verso; w. some repairs/ restorations in upper and lower margins; browned on verso.
= "Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), a landscape painter and engraver, studied architecture in Rouen before travelling to Paris. (...). Through the Marquis de Marigny he was sent to the French Academy in Rome in 1768, and the following year made his first trip to Napels and Sicily in the entourage of the Marquis d'Havrincourt. After his return to Paris in 1772 he exhibited his Italian views, which were well enough received that he determined on a second trip to Sicily. This he made from 1776 to 1779, including in his investigations Malta and Lipari. Here he assumed the role of observer, artist, and naturalist, amassing copious notes on new material. Claude-Henri Watelet and the director-general of the Gobelins Manufacture, d'Angivillers, were helpful in making this second trip possible. To finance it, Houel sold drawings that he had made in Italy when he returned to France. Forty-six were purchased by the king, and over five hundred by Catherine II of Russia. At this time he determined to publish the material he had accumulated on the voyage. (...) Houel was one of the first French artists to discover the antique ruins still visible in Sicily." (Millard, French Books, 80, note).
- (Sl.) yellowed; pinholes in corners.
Monogrammist "v.O."[?] (late 19th cent.). "11 Augustus Dordrecht'. Drawing, pencil, monogrammed(?) and titled in lower left corner, a few sm. annots. concerning colours, 20x33,2 cm.
- Lower blank corners trifle dam.
- A few sm. dents/ stains in upper part; nevertheless an attractive drawing.
= Supplied w. a photograph of the Bottelpoort in Nijmegen, showing some resemblance.