Zeilschip op een rivier en een rivierlandschap met molens 1892 - 1913

Bramine Hubrecht made this tentative pencil drawing of a Zeilschip op een rivier en een rivierlandschap met molens, sometime between 1870 and 1913. What a fascinating sketch! Looking at these hushed and somewhat nervous lines, I can imagine Hubrecht out in the landscape, perhaps with a sketchbook balanced on her knee. The soft graphite marks feel incredibly intimate, as though we are peering over her shoulder as she works. I wonder what caught her eye that day? Was it the way the light shimmered on the water, or the looming shapes of the windmills against the sky? Maybe it was something else entirely that we can't even see. You can feel that she’s working things out as she goes, rubbing out some lines, reinforcing others. She’s really in the thick of it. This work reminds me that drawing is a form of thinking, a way of feeling the world in real time. There's so much more to discover about the world through marks like these.