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The Swijgh Utrecht Tower in Amsterdam
Also titled De toren Swijgh Utrecht in Amsterdam
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1650 - c. 1655
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 166 mm x width 235 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The Arquebusiers, who commissioned Rembrandt’s Night Watch, assembled in the two structures at the left in this drawing. The Night Watch hung in the leftmost modern building of the complex from 1642. The nearby medieval city wall tower had a tall pointed roof in Rembrandt’s time. Rembrandt omitted it to showcase the original architecture. He used such old round towers as scenery in his history scenes.
