A View of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
Details
- Author / creator
- Johannes Huibert Prins (Dutch, 1757–1806)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Date or period
- 1793
- Dimensions summary
- Image and Sheet: 29.8 × 32.8 cm
- Place of origin
- Netherlands
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of Colonel James Thursby, 2020
- Paper / support
- Wove paper
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
Johannes Huibert Prins made small-scale works on paper such as this drawing featuring scenes of Dutch cities and the people who inhabited them going about their everyday lives. In this drawing, the large Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the city of Delft is shown from the side, while a matron fills a bucket for washing from the canal and laborers and other urban inhabitants cross the bridge beyond. Prins's technique, based on that of the artist Jan van der Heyden who worked about 100 years earlier, relied on minute detail—down to the mortar between each brick—achieved with astounding control of the ink and wash.
Materials and technique
Brush, point of brush and brown ink and wash with traces of graphite on cream medium-weight wove paper
Signature and marks
Brown ink stamp, verso, lower right; Written in pencil on verso: "[illegible]"; Written in brown ink on verso: "A?u de Niewe Kerk le (?) Delft van de agtenzede le zieu/F.H. Prins ad viv del 1793"; Written in pencil on verso: "[illegible/illegible]"
