Two English Warships

Artist Adam Willaerts (Dutch, born England, 1577 - 1664)

Date17th century

MediumBrown ink on paper

DimensionsOverall: 6 7/16 × 5 7/8 inches (16.31 × 14.91 cm)
Framed: 16 1/2 × 14 × 1 1/4 inches (41.91 × 35.56 × 3.18 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/95

Signedverso, top edge: "A. Willaerts"

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 18, as Two English Warships.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Two English Warships.

Provenance

Purchased from Art Gallery Schretlen, Bergen, The Netherlands by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 14, 1959-1980;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 80-81, (repro.), as Two English Warships.

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