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Jan Brandes

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Watercolor coat of arms with red shield, silver battlements and bees, crowned helmet, and handwritten Dutch blazon below.

Stamboom van Henrich Brandes

1760

Pen and watercolor sketch of a crowned knight in armour on a horse with pink and gold trappings, holding a lance.

Schets van een ridder te paard

1755

Sketchbook page with pen drawing of bird legs tied with rope in lower right, mostly blank paper, page number 80.

Boom met touw

1785

Watercolor of three Cape birds on an album page: a grey finch, a red-headed bird on a branch, and a brown lark below.

Kaapse vogels

1786

Cockatoo from Ambon

1784

Pencil sketch of a crested cockatoo with spread wings on a page in a bound album.

Ambonse kaketoe

1784

Watercolour sketchbook page with four green long-tailed parakeets perched on branches, shown in several views.

Dwergpapagaaien

1785

Watercolor page of red, green and white parrots and a cockatoo on branches, with Dutch handwritten labels, dated 1784.

Birds from Ambon

1784

Watercolor botanical study of striped serrated leaves and a flower spike with handwritten Dutch notes on an album page.

Poedak, Javaanse bloem

1785

Pen and watercolour drawing of two Javanese birds on a branch, one with a red head and dark wings, from a 1784 album page.

Javaanse vogels

1784

Pen and ink map on a book page showing rivers, towns, and dotted routes between Doetinchem and Venlo.

Kaart van de streek tussen Doetinchem en Venlo

1770

Watercolour interior by Jan Brandes showing a woman and two men trading from clay pots, with a caged bird and Dutch text abov

Boterhandel op Ceylon

1785

Pencil sketch of buildings, a church spire and a tree on a sketchbook page with Dutch handwritten notes.

Voorstudie van een gezicht op Galle

1785

Pen and watercolour sketch of a ship's cabin with a paned window, wooden railing and grey sail, beside a handwritten note.

Deel van het scheepsdek van een VOC-schip

1785

Sketchbook page with pencil riders on horses and donkeys above watercolor studies of seabirds in flight, with Dutch notes.

Vertelling over man en ezel. Zeevogels

1778

Sketchbook page with watercolor and pencil studies of seabirds in flight, annotated with Dutch notes on size and plumage.

Seabirds

1778

Sketchbook page with watercolor studies of crickets, cockroaches, grasshoppers, a caterpillar and cocoon, labeled in handwrit

Insecten

1783

Watercolor of a green grasshopper in side view with brown wings and long antennae, on a sketchbook page with handwritten note

Sprinkhaan

1784

Pencil study on a notebook page of a gecko foot with magnified toe pad and claw details and Dutch annotations.

Poot van tjitjak of huisgekko

1784

Watercolor drawing of two grasshoppers on an album page, one green and one brown, with handwritten Dutch labels.

Indonesische sprinkhanen

1784

Two watercolor drawings of a leaf insect on a sketchbook page, with a handwritten Dutch caption below.

Het Vliegende blad

1778

Watercolor of a spider head with eight eyes, plus a small sketch and handwritten Dutch notes on an album page.

Spinnenkoppen

1785

Pencil sketch of a herd of elephants on a horizon with a tree at right and a handwritten Dutch note on the page.

Kudde olifanten

1785

Naakte man met stok

1787

Pencil drawing of a standing nude woman with one arm outstretched, surrounded by grid lines and handwritten measurement notes

Naaktstudies van vrouw en man

1787

Pencil and wash drawing of a nude male figure seen from behind, one arm extended, with faint grid lines.

Naaktstudies van vrouw en man, op de rug gezien

1787

Pencil drawing of a seated female nude with bowed head and bent legs, drawn on tinted paper inside a ruled mount.

Seated Female Nude

1787

Naaktstudies van man en vrouw

1787

Pen drawing of a garden labyrinth with winding paths, a domed pavilion at the centre and two gates at the bottom.

Labyrint

1770

Pen drawing of a garden labyrinth in plan view with a small gazebo at the center and steps at the entrance.

Labyrint

1788

Aged page of pen and wash perspective diagrams with handwritten notes, tree sketches, a horizon line and a scale bar.

Nieuwe smeltlamp die metalen doet smelten door middel van stoom of spiritus

1799

Pencil sketch of a horsefly seen from above with spread wings and annotations on a notebook page.

Horzel

1770