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Petrus van der Velden

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Pencil sketch of a seated figure in an interior with wooden beams and vertical posts.

Dutch interior

Pencil sketch of a man lying across a round table with another figure leaning over its edge, arm hanging down.

Two studies of a Swiss climber: 1. Lying across table. 2. Leaning across table

1867

Charcoal sketch of a grove of trees with dark foliage and a pale hatched sky, from an 1891 sketchbook.

Sketch of trees. From An 1891 sketchbook

1891

Pencil sketch of a seated street vendor beside a canopied cart with a large wheel, with a parasol at right.

Street vendor's stall

Charcoal sketch of a man in a hat bent over reading, drawn loosely on a tan sketchbook page, numbered 41.

Sketch of man reading in An 1893 sketchbook

1893

Pencil cloud study on a sketchbook page, dark clouds with light gaps, numbered 30, by Petrus van der Velden, 1905.

Cloud study in A Wellington sketchbook

1905

Pencil sketch of a grazing cow in the foreground, a second cow and fence behind, and a faint mountain on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of cows with Mt Taranaki in An 1893 sketchbook

1893

Pencil sketches of a boat hull and branches with handwritten notes and repeated script letters on a sketchbook page.

Inside back cover of An 1893 sketchbook

1893

Sketchbook page with grey pencil handwriting in cursive, numbered 3, with crossed-out words and short notes at the bottom.

Page with text from A Wellington sketchbook

1905

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a wide hat with pipes resting across his knee, signed by Petrus van der Velden.

Two studies of a Swiss climber: 1. Resting with pipes across knee. 2. Blowing pipes

1867

Pencil sketch of hills and a hazy distant range across a pale, misty landscape on a sketchbook page.

Sketches of hiils in A Wellington sketchbook

1905

Lithograph of moored sailing ships and gabled houses along a canal harbor, with figures on the quay and a rowboat.

Gedenkplaat 50 jaar na het uitzeilen van de eerste haringvloot na de herstelling van Nederlands onafhankelijkheid, 1864

1864

Pencil sketch of house rooflines and chimneys on a diagonal hillside, with loose hatched strokes below, on cream paper.

Pencil sketch of house rooflines from A wellington sketchbook, c1908-12

1908

Pencil sketch study with hands holding a frying pan, a reaching hand, a partial face, and a sketched cat on aged paper.

Untitled [studies of a cat, hands, frying pan, face]

Graphite sketchbook page with a rough landscape study of hills, trees and shaded rocks above a horizon line.

Landscape sketches. From An 1891 sketchbook

1891

Pencil sketch of two sailing boats on water in a sketchbook, with a larger two-masted ship and a smaller sailboat.

Sketch of boats in A Wellington sketchbook

1905

Blank cream sketchbook page with faint grey smudge on the right and the handwritten number 26 in the lower left corner.

Blank page

1908

Charcoal sketch of a dark barge on water with a standing figure at right and faint outlines of boats on the left.

Funeral barge

1875

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a bonnet kneeling and scrubbing a floor beside a bucket.

Woman scrubbing

Two studies of a young boy: 1. Standing. 2. Lying on chair

1867

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman in a long dress and feathered hat, hands folded in her lap.

Study of a woman in fashionable dress, seated

1867

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of rolling hills with grazing livestock and fence posts in a landscape.

Sketch of livestock in landscape in A Wellington sketchbook

1907

Pencil sketch of a house, a horse cart and standing figures on open ground, drawn in a sketchbook.

Sketch of house, cart, figures in A wellington sketchbook c 1908-12

1908

Pencil sketch of a cable car on overhead cables crossing a wooded hillside, with handwritten notes below.

Sketch of a cable car. From An 1891 sketchbook

1891

Pencil sketch of a horse with a cart behind it on a sketchbook page, loosely drawn with scribbled graphite shading.

Sketch of horse with cart from A Wellington sketchbook c1908-12

1908

Loose pencil sketch of a cow with dark hatched shading on a cream sketchbook page numbered 9.

Pencil sketch of cows from A wellington sketchbook, c1908-12

1908

Double-page pencil sketch in a sketchbook showing loose strokes of a ridge and rocky landforms, page numbered 64.

Double page landscape sketch from an Otira sketchbook

1893

Open sketchbook page with faint smudged charcoal transfer marks and a cloth tie, numbered 8 in the upper corner.

Page with charcoal transfer in a Wellington sketchbook

1907

Open sketchbook showing a blank cream page with faint pencil marks near the center and the number 24 in the corner.

Blank page in A Wellington sketchbook

1905

Pencil sketch of a two-masted boat with a standing figure on deck, drawn loosely on a cream sketchbook page.

Sketch of boat from A Wellington sketchbook

1907

Charcoal sketch on a sketchbook page of cats resting together on a cushion beneath loose lines of furniture.

Sketch of three cats in An 1893 sketchbook

1893

Charcoal sketch of dark scrubby hills and a faint distant ridgeline on a sketchbook page, numbered 37.

Sketch of hills in an Otira sketchbook

1893