Print Description
This print shows a view on a herd crossing the brook. A shepherd on a donkey and a standing figure with a load guiding cattle and sheep through a stream. Mirror image from the original print.
Made by Johann Georg Hertel after Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem .
Medium: Engraving / etching on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 25 x 35 cm (9.84 x 13.78 inch). Image size: 20 x 30 cm. (7.87 x 11.81 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Creases. Brownish. Small tears in margin restored. Blue and green stains. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
HERD-SHEPHARD-DONKEY-BROOK-COWS-SHEEP | RBOS-A11-19
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in ca 1750.
Biography engraver: Johann Georg Hertel (1700 in Augsburg-1775) was a German engraver from Augsburg.
Biography artist: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620-83) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
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