Vûe du bourg de Spa entre le nord et le levant [art original] / Antoine Le Loup fecit.
- Creator:
- Le Loup, Antoine, 1730-, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. 1767]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : ink wash on vellum ; image 8.7 x 14.4 cm, on sheet 10.9 x 16.1 cm
- Notes:
- 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].
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. - Abstract:
- 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.
- Variant Titles:
- Vüe de Spa
- Topics:
- Drawing, Belgian--18th century.
- Topics:
- Spa (Belgium)--Pictorial works.
- Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--Belgian--18th century.
Views.
Wash drawings--Belgian--18th century. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 43 Box 4
- Orbis Record:
- 13094912
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25665
- Citation:
- Antoine Le Loup, Vûe du Bourg de Spa Entre le Nord et le Levant. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193688
- PID:
- digcoll:4048049
