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Object Type
print
Museum number
Sheepshanks.4436
Description
Landscape with a standing cow seen in profile and facing left in the foreground, a recumbent cow seen from the back in the background to the right; black borderline; second state with publisher's address and number Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Anthonie van Borssom
Published by:
Gerard Valck
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1666-1726
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
121 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
171 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(1.II)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(IV.219.1)
Weigel 1843 / Suppléments au Peintre-Graveur de Adam Bartsch
(188.1.II)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
mammal
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W & G Smith
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Sheepshanks
Acquisition date
1836
Acquisition notes
For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Sheepshanks.4436
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
S.4436