The Sportsman
The Sportsman
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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 Wooded Landscape. Print removed from George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Pencil note on mounting sheet "Taken out for framing Mar. 16, 1894." SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed in margin below image.
- The painter Gaspard Dughet took the name Poussin after the French artist Nicolas Poussin, his mentor and the husband of his sister.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- engraving
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Other Terms
- Print; Intaglio; Etching
- date made
- 1775
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- engraver
- Browne, John
- original artist
- Dughet, Gaspard
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 39.75 cm x 47.75 cm; 15 21/32 in x 18 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.50
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.50
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Hunting
- Landscape
- Dogs
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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