A storm in the Italian countryside. Engraving after G. Poussin.

  • Dughet, Gaspard, 1615-1675.
Date:
1830
Reference:
3043924i
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Description

Herders guarding sheep raise their arms in fear as black clouds cover the sky and the trees are buffeted by squalls

Publication/Creation

[London?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 23.1 x 30 cm, image 16.8 x 22.2 cm

Contributors

Lettering

A land storm. G. Poussin.

Creator/production credits

Apparently larger and earlier than the engraving of this composition by Samuel Lacey, 1836

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3043924i

Reproduction note

After: a painting by Gaspard Dughet in the Angerstein collection, which was acquired as the foundation collection of the National Gallery, London, in 1824, with this picture as NG no. 36

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