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Object Type
print
Museum number
1877,0609.1545
Title
Object:
Mendicants
Series:
Houghton Gallery
Description
Landscape with at centre a man on horseback going down a road, on the left a seated man and a standing woman by the roadside, on the right a man sitting astride a tree trunk and a man carrying a bundle over his shoulder; after Gioacomo Cortese; published state. 1777 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
James Peake
After:
Giacomo Cortese
Published by:
John Boydell
School/style
Italian
British
Production date
1777
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
232 millimetres
Width:
265 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
From 'The Houghton Gallery', see 2005,U.109. For another impression, see 1978,U.284.
Bibliographic references
Rubinstein 1991 / Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery
(I.35)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
landscape
Associated names
Associated with:
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Louis Bihn
Acquisition date
1877
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1877,0609.1545