A Flower Piece
A Flower Piece
- Description
- Mezzotint from George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Removed from the binding by curator S. R. Koehler for use in the Smithsonian exhbition at Cincinnati in 1888. Companion print to A Fruit Piece, also after van Huysum. In the volume's table of contents, the publisher described these two prints as surpassing, "in point of execution, every print before engraved in this manner."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1778
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- original artist
- Huysum, Jan van
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 56.75 cm x 43 cm; 22 11/32 in x 16 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.91
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.91
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Flowers
- related event
- Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History