• Maximiliaan van Hangest-Genlis gezegd D' Yvoy (military engineer)
• Maximiliaan van Hangest-Genlis gezegd D' Yvoy (draughtsman)

Plan for new fortifications for the lock at Sas van Gent, United Netherlands

1681

- Plan of proposed fortifications for Sas van Gent, a lock on the Terneuzen-Ghent canal, where the canal meets the Wester Schelde River. The relationship between canal, lock, and river is not immediately clear in this drawing, but can be understood by comparison with A. Hattinga's map of 1750, 'Plan van het Sas van Gent' (Hattinga, reprint 1977). The dotted lines probably outline existing fortifications, while pentimenti in pen and red ink may be changes in the project (Cazort, 3.). There is a compass rose in the lower left corner.

• dessin de présentation

Pen and black, brown, and red ink, and watercolour

album: 46.7 x 34.3 x 1.0 cm sheet: 44.9 x 65.0 cm

DR1988:0435

• finished drawing
• rendering

• pictorial drawing
• plan (drawing)

- The sheet is folded in half. It is lined with linen, with an extra strip at the fold. There is a small tear, repaired, at the c.l. The sheet is stored folded, in a green cloth-covered portfolio with a label on the front, imprinted with the subject, date, and Yvoy's name.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, l.r.: "Par le quartir mestr gin.al [sic] / Yuoy / 1681 / Zas van gent" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.r.: "I.16." numbered - by an unknown hand, in ink, verso, l.r.: "16"; and in graphite, l.r.: "16"

• militaire