Farmhouse by a Stream, 1778

Title

Farmhouse by a Stream

Draughtsman

• Hendrik Meyer

Period Produced

• 18th century

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Watercolour and body colour, pen and black ink, partially gone over with brush and gum (arabic?), over black chalk or charcoal

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• watercolours
• gouache
• chalk?
• coal?
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• white heightening
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?
• charcoal drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und datiert in der Darstellung unten links auf einem Holzbrett (mit der Feder in Schwarz): H Meijer inv et fecit 1778

Captions Added Later

Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• architecture
• genre

Primary

• 25I3(+1) farm or solitary house in landscape (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• 25H212(+1) brook (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
• 25I2451(+1) bridge in village across river, canal, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• 46C53 migrants
• 46C1421 two-wheeled vehicle drawn by one animal
• 46C1111 crossing a river
• 11Q7121(TOWER) parts of church exterior and annexes: tower