A View of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
Medium
Brush, point of brush and brown ink and wash with traces of graphite on cream medium-weight wove paper
Dimensions
29.8 × 32.8 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
Accession Number
2020.141
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About this artwork
Johannes Huibert Prins made small-scale works on paper such as this drawing featuring scenes of Dutch cities and the people who inhabited them going about their everyday lives. In this drawing, the large Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the city of Delft is shown from the side, while a matron fills a bucket for washing from the canal and laborers and other urban inhabitants cross the bridge beyond. Prins's technique, based on that of the artist Jan van der Heyden who worked about 100 years earlier, r...