Panoramic View of Amsterdam, Looking towards the IJ, Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, c. 1665

...; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (H. de Winter and J. Yver), 12 February 1770 sqq., Album D, no. 283 (‘Een Gezicht van het Dorp Ouderkerk aan den Amstel en een Gezicht ziende van het verbrande Dak van de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam over de Stad, getekend in de manier als de voorgaande, [met zwart Kryd, door J. Ruisdael]’); …; sale, Hendrik Busserus (1701-81, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 21 October 1782 sqq., Album 32, no. 2192 (‘Twee stuks, de Luthersche Nieuwe Kerk, en een gezicht over de Stad Amsterdam, met zwart Kryt, door J. Ruysdaal’), with one other drawing, fl. 4:10:- for both, to ‘IJver’;{Copy RMA.} …; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (J. Roos), 11 March 1789 sqq., Album 2, no. 28 (‘Amsterdam van het verbrande Dak der Nieuwe Kerk af te zien, door J. Ruisdaal’); …; collection Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (L. 971); his wife, Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine, Princess of Bavaria (1805-77), Dresden; her nephew, Georg, King of Saxony (1832-1904), Dresden; his son, Johann Georg, Prince of Saxony (1869-1938), Dresden and Altshausen, near Ravensburg;{According to L. 971.} …; collection Wilhelmus Josephus Rudolphus Dreesmann (1885-1954), Amsterdam, by 1951;{Dreesmann 1942-1951, III (1951), p. 770.} his sale, Amsterdam (B.F.M. Mensing), 22 March 1960 sqq., no. 24, fl. 17,360, to the museum (L. 2228)

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