Aqua, ca. 1617

  • Willem Buytewech, Dutch, 1591-1624
  • Jan van de Velde, Dutch, 1593-1641

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 7 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (19.1 × 29.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund

73.10

Signed, in plate, lower right center of image: J. V. Velde. fecit.

Inscribed, in plate below image, lower center: AQUA. Inscribed, in Latin: [two lines of text on either side of the central inscription] Inscribed, lower right: WB Inscribed, lower right corner 4

1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Franken, D., and van der Kellen, J. L'oeuvre de Jan Van de Velde. Amsterdam, 1968 (1883), no. 137. From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 13.

Jan van de Velde; after Willem Buytewech, Aqua, ca. 1617, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 73.10.