Lot 198
  • 198

Dirk Langendijk Rotterdam 1748 - 1805

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Dirk Langendijk
  • a stage coach held up by bandits
  • signed and dated in pen and brown ink: Dirk Langendijk / delin et Fecit 1805
  • pen and brown ink and grey wash, within black ink framing lines

Condition

Stuck down along top edge to mount. Some foxing stains and places where brown ink seems to have run - i.e. in trees at left. Basically in good condition and paper shows white.
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Catalogue Note

A very similar composition, signed and dated 1804, was London, Sotheby's, 25 November 1970, lot 101.