Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Attributed to Willem Schellinks
View of the Ripa Grande, Rome
Lot Closed
December 4, 02:48 PM GMT
Estimate
2,400 - 3,500 GBP
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Willem Schellinks
Amsterdam 1623 - 1678
View of the Ripa Grande, Rome
Brush and brown wash over black chalk;
bears numbering in brown ink, verso: No. 199
unframed: 262 by 408 mm
framed: 430 by 595 mm
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a),
where acquired by Michael Ingram in 1951 (bears his collector's mark, not in Lugt),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 22
where acquired by Michael Ingram in 1951 (bears his collector's mark, not in Lugt),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 22
This important mooring site on the River Tiber was also recorded, from a different angle, in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's famous drawing, now at Chatsworth (inv. no. 841; see H. Mielke, Pieter Bruegel, die Zeichnungen, Brepols 1996, cat. no. 14.) Visible here to the left are the church and bell-tower of Santa Maria in Turri, while in the centre of the composition is the Dogana Vecchia, the marine customs house that was demolished in 1790 to make way for the Ospizio di San Michele.