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Object Type
print
Museum number
1870,0813.957
Title
Object:
The Oyster meal
Description
The Oyster Meal; Dutch interior with a woman seated at a table and holding a wine-glass and an oyster, wearing a fur-trimmed cape and looking at a man who offers her a plate with oysters; within decorative frame; after Frans van Mieris the Elder. 1818 Lithograph
Producer name
Print made by:
Johann Nepomuk Strixner
After:
Frans van Mieris I
Published by:
Literarisch-artistischen Anstalt Theodor Riedel
Printed by:
B Berner
School/style
German
Dutch
Production date
1818
Materials
paper
Technique
lithograph
Dimensions
Height:
707 millimetres
Width:
540 millimetres
(sheet size)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For another impression see also 1983,U.123. After the 1661 painting by Frans van Mieris in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, inv.no.819.
Bibliographic references
Winkler 1975 / Die Frühzeit der deutschen Lithographie
(undescribed)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(undescribed)
(after Mieris)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
eating/drinking
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
J M Parsons
Acquisition date
1870
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1870,0813.957