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Object Type
Museum number: 1864,0714.110
Title: Object: The Jocund Peasants
Description: An inn with a table outside, around which are seated seven peasants, making merry, drinking from tankards and smoking clay pipes, in the foreground to right is a boy rolling a barrel with a dog chasing, in the background to right is a water pump, from which a woman draws water, surrounded by three children, one with a hoop, and one stroking a dog in front of a half-door through which are visible two people talking; after Cornelis Dusart. 1767 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: William Woollett (engraving); Print made by: John Browne (etching); After: Cornelis Dusart
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1767
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 505 millimetres; Width: 385 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Fagan 1885 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett (58.IV); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (87) (after Dusart)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: drunkenness; tavern/inn; peasant/villager
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Julian Marshall (L.1494); Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 30.vi.1864/1946); Purchased through: Holloway (& Son)
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1864,0714.110

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