Landscape with Inn and Drinking Travellers, 1783

Title

Landscape with Inn and Drinking Travellers

Draughtsman

• Jacob Cats

Period Produced

• 18th century

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brush and grey and greyish brown gum (arabic?), over black chalk

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite?
• chalk?
• coal?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• brush drawing
• pencil drawing
• graphite drawing?
• chalk drawing?
• charcoal drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Verso signiert und datiert unten links (mit der Feder in Grau): J:ᵇ Cats inv et fec / 1783

Captions Added Later

Verso unten mittig Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• landscape
• architecture
• genre

Primary

• 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape
• 47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
• 46C131 riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
• 33A11 baring the head, lifting one's hat
• 46C11 road, path
• 41C32 drinking-vessels