A river port: horses and people are engaged in different activities as bales of goods are unloaded from ships to wagons. Engraving, 17--, after P. Wouwermans.
- Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668.
- Date:
- [between 1700 and 1799]
- Reference:
- 2823154i
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About this work
Description
Centre, horses drink from the river water, two boys are swimming in the river while women in a boat wash clothes in the water; in the background goods are carried over a stone bridge. Right, a ruined watch-tower
Publication/Creation
A Paris (rue St André des Arts en face de la rue Gille Coeur) : [J. Daullé?], [between 1700 and 1799]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 39.2 x 50.3 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Port. Gravé d'après le tableau de Vauvremans de même grandeur; tiré du cabinet de Monsieur Cressan.
References note
Not found in C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, vol. 2, London 1909, pp. 582-587, nos. 994-1004, where many similar compositions by Wouwermans are described. Hofstede de Groot's no. 999 was in the possession of "Cressent" from 1751 to not later than 1802: he may be the same as the "Cressan" mentioned here, but the description differs
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2823154i
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Location Status Access Closed stores