Vûe du bourg de Spa entre le nord et le levant [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Vûe du bourg de Spa entre le nord et le levant [art original]
- Alternative Title
- Vüe de Spa
- Creator
- Le Loup, Antoine, 1730-, artist
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1767]
- Publication Place
- Belgium
- Abstract
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Drawing of the Belgian town of Spa as viewed from a nearby hill. Houses, a church, and other buildings are visible in the center of town; rolling, tree-lined hills are in the distance beyond. A woman carrying a basket travels along a path in the foreground; a dense thicket is on her left as she walks past a single tree on her right
- Description
-
Titled by the artist in ink below image; alternative title "Vüe de Spa" written in brown ink in a different hand above image.
Signed by the artist in ink below title, in lower right.
Part of a group of drawings by Antoine Le Loup of his hometown of Spa, one of which is dated "1767" by the artist. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B935 805 folder 45.
Sheet numbered "1" in ink in upper right corner.
Formerly laid in at page 135 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately. - Provenance
- Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : image 8.7 x 14.4 cm, on sheet 10.9 x 16.1 cm
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 43 Box 4
- Collection Title
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Collection / Other Creator
- Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
- Collection Date
- [England], [not after 1806]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pictorial works
Views
Ink drawings Belgian 18th century
Wash drawings Belgian 18th century - Material
- ink wash on vellum ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Spa (Belgium)
- Subjects
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Spa (Belgium) > Pictorial works
Belgian > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Antoine Le Loup, Vûe du Bourg de Spa Entre le Nord et le Levant. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 13094912
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193688
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