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拍品專文
As described by Lotte and Wolf Stubbe (Um 1660 auf Reisen gezeichnet, Anthonie Waterloo 1610-1690, Hamburg, 1983) Waterloo drew at least eleven views near the city of Danzig in Northern Germany, now Poland. This port had close ties with cities in Holland, and Waterloo probably went there by sea, also to visit the monastery of Oliva near Danzig, where in 1660 peace had been concluded after the war between Prussia and Poland from 1655.
The Stubbes list twelve drawings of views near Danzig, among them three near the estate of the Hermannshof in Danzig-Langfuhr (W. and L. Stubbe, op. cit., pp. 148-151, pls. 52-3, in the Albertina, Vienna, and no. B9, from the collections of Ploos van Amstel and J. de Vos, now lost, but not to be identified with the present lot). The area around the Hermannshof was well-known for its wells, the Heiligerbrunner Quellen supplying fresh drinking water which was sold in jugs in Danzig until the end of the 19th Century. The wells were protected by wattle fences, and one of the Albertina drawings (Stubbe, op.cit., pl. 52) shows a similar wooded landscape with a fence near a path leading along a stream. The inscription on the present lot was probably copied from an original inscription indicating that the house at the right is the Hermannshof itself, located at the 'heijlige' well.
During the same trip in Northern Germany Waterloo visited Hamburg, as is illustrated in the previous lot in this sale.
The Stubbes list twelve drawings of views near Danzig, among them three near the estate of the Hermannshof in Danzig-Langfuhr (W. and L. Stubbe, op. cit., pp. 148-151, pls. 52-3, in the Albertina, Vienna, and no. B9, from the collections of Ploos van Amstel and J. de Vos, now lost, but not to be identified with the present lot). The area around the Hermannshof was well-known for its wells, the Heiligerbrunner Quellen supplying fresh drinking water which was sold in jugs in Danzig until the end of the 19th Century. The wells were protected by wattle fences, and one of the Albertina drawings (Stubbe, op.cit., pl. 52) shows a similar wooded landscape with a fence near a path leading along a stream. The inscription on the present lot was probably copied from an original inscription indicating that the house at the right is the Hermannshof itself, located at the 'heijlige' well.
During the same trip in Northern Germany Waterloo visited Hamburg, as is illustrated in the previous lot in this sale.