Object Details
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- original artist
- Huysum, Jan van
- 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
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1778
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.91
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.91
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- 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
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Related Publication
- Gregory M. Rubinstein. Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Flowers
- related event
- Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
- Record ID
- nmah_784894
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-c137-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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