print
- Museum number
- 1893,0612.93
- Title
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Object: A herb market
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Series: Houghton Gallery
- Description
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Two women on the right, haggling over vegetables, while a small urchin pickpockets one of them; stacks of produce on the left and right, wagon and houses in the background, a horse sniffs at some cabbage from the far left; coat of arms at bottom; after Frans Snyders and Jan Boeckhorst; published state. 1779
Mezzotint with stipple and etching
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 412 millimetres
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Width: 573 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'The Houghton Gallery', see 2005,U.109 for comment.
According to Wessely, the published states of 'A Fruit Market', 'A Herb Market', and 'A Fish Market', are lettered "G. Farington delt." This print, however, is lettered with "Joseph Farington".
After the painting attributed to Frans Snyders, now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, inv.no.GE598; see M. Galen, 'Johann Boeckhorst: Gemälde und Zeichnungen', Hamburg, 2012, cat.no.A51.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,0612.93
