print
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1579-1580
- Title
- Series: Stafford Gallery
- Description
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Four images printed on the same plate. 1811
Plate 137: The Interior of a Kitchen: Dutch kitchen with a woman cutting fruits at right, a man hanging pieces of meat on a hook, a cook at the fire-place in background, a cat playing with a mouse in lower right; after Pieter van Slingelandt.
Plate 149: A Lady at her Toilette: Dutch interior with a young woman seated in front of a mirror in her bedroom, wearing a night-cap and fur-trimmed cape, a canopied bed beyond; after Willem van Mieris.
Plate 150: The Violin Player: Interior of a tavern with a fiddler seated at a table, a waitress with a glass and a jug behind him; after Willem van Mieris.
Plate 151: The Interior of a Farm House: Interior of a Dutch cottage, a woman scouring a kettle placed on a barrel at centre, a child holding a stick and a pot at left, a spinning wheel and other household items in right foreground, a fire-place and curtained bed beyond; after Willem van Mieris.
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
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Height: 291 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 226 millimetres (cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 1860,0211.522; 1860,0211.480; 1860,0211.481 and 1860,0211.479
- 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
- 1867,0309.1579-1580
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1867,0309.1589 (fourth image on this plate)
