print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1469
- Title
- Object: A Calm
- Description
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Ships on a calm sea, including a frigate in the background to left, firing broadsides, with a man at the edge of the water to left, tipping water from a basket, with a barrel and anchor behind him, the prow of a small boat in the shallows to right; after Cuyp. 1822
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres (image)
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Width: 191 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- The BM purchased at the sale from the prints sold in bundles rather than in individual lots. It bought lots 47, 106, 352 and 431 in their entirely. It also made selections from lots 1,2,3,5,11,49,50,75,93,107,108,115,116,162,358. It is not easy from the register to work out which prints belonged to which lot.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0309.1469