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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,2.171
Description
Two farmers with their dog; landscape with the farmers on a road in lower left, walking through a forest, a mature and gnarled tree in right foreground. c.1650 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1650
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
193 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
275 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is second state with finished sky, for another impression see S.1132. For first state see S.1131.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(2.II)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(I.312.2)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
tree/bush
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials CMC)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Robert Dighton
(L.727; stolen)
Acquisition date
1799
Acquisition notes
For more information about Dighton's false provenances see An Van Camp, 'Robert Dighton and his spurious collectors' marks on Rembrandt prints in the British Museum, London', in The Burlington Magazine 155 (2013), pp.88-94.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
F,2.171