print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1858,0417.315
- Description
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Five etchings on one plate, after Philips Wouwerman showing people loading hay, after David Teniers showing men around a table, one showing a mallard on water, one after Frans Hals showing a man, wife and child by the side of a road, one after Titian showing the Entombement; illustration to "Practical Treatise on Painting", Part 2, Plate VIII; proof without figure 1 (after Melchior d'Hondecoeter). July 1826
Etching with an experimental form of stippling
- Production date
- 1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 278 millimetres
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Width: 224 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A copy of the illustrated book is in the British Museum, 166.b.39; the three volumes of the book were published in 1822, 1826 and 1827, and altogether in 1827.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Practical Treatise on Painting, in Three Parts, consisting of Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and Colouring. The Whole Illustrated by Examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools. (1827)
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0417.315
