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View of Hama in Syria on the river Orontes

Maker

(artist)
1624-1677

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1614-1652

Title

Date of Production

1640 - 1677

Medium

pen and brown ink, blue-grey wash on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 40.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1258

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

A group of travellers on a winding road draws the eye toward the towers and distinctive water mills of the Syrian city of Hama in the middle ground, set amid a mountainous landscape. It is unclear whether Peeters actually visited Syria himself or whether he based this drawing upon prints or contemporary travellers’ reports. This drawing may relate to his album of views of sites in the Middle East which were etched by Gaspar Bouttats (around 1640-1695) and published in 1672.

Provenance

Allen Collection; F.E. Sidney; his estate sale, Christie's (London), 10 December 1937, lot 85; purchased there by Sir Bruce S. Ingram, Chesham, Buckinghamshire (1877-1963); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Panorama, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/09/2015-10/01/2016

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 128

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto, within the drawing, both brown ink and in the artist’s hand: upper centre edge: "haman in Soria"; lower right: "orontes_ _ Flu⁹--". Verso: upper left, graphite, faint: "no- 1-".

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Old backing sheets (two). 'No - 1 - / 19 1/2 X 11 3/4' and L.2228b

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