item details
NameSketch of landscape with windmills. From: Marine and Marken sketchbook.
ProductionPetrus van der Velden; artist; circa 1870-1871
Classificationsketchbooks, works on paper
Materialsgraphite pencil, rag paper
Materials Summarypencil
DimensionsImage: 170mm (width), 100mm (height)
Registration Number1967-0017-2/36-88
Credit lineGift of W. Fergusson Hogg, 1967
Overview
Capturing the essence
Here one might linger long, noting how the exact effect has been obtained by a few broad lines of chalk, a smudge or two of charcoal, or a wash or two of simple colour.
‘Auckland Society of Arts Exhibition’, The New Zealand Herald, 1892
Van der Velden’s pocket-sized sketchbooks reveal his skill in capturing the essence of his subject in just a few lines or strokes. He incorporated certain motifs from these drawings into more developed sketches or finished paintings.