The Fisherman
The Fisherman
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- Description
- Engraving after original painting by Gaspard Dughet [called Poussin] once in the Gallery at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, with descriptive title Landscape with a Fisherman. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.
- The painter Gaspard Dughet took the name Poussin after the French artist Nicolas Poussin, his mentor and the husband of his sister.
- Object Name
- engraving
- Object Type
- Engraving
- date made
- 1775
- original artist
- Dughet, Gaspard
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- engraver
- Mason, James
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 40.2 cm x 48.1 cm; 15 13/16 in x 18 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.51
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.51
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Landscape
- Fishing
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- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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