A Fish Market
A Fish Market
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- Description
- Mezzotint after painting by Frans Snyders and formerly attributed to Jan Boeckhorst, known as Long John, once in the Gallery at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg with the background landscape attributed to Jan Wildens. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. SI Secretary's library stamp embossed in lower margin to the left of the title.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- date made
- 1782
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- artist attribution
- Boeckhorst, Jan
- original artist
- Snyders, Frans
- delineator
- Farington, George
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 44.25 cm x 60.75 cm; 17 13/32 in x 23 29/32 in
- plate: 41.5 cm x 57.75 cm; 16 11/32 in x 22 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.51
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.51
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Fish
- Markets
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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