Description
This print shows a view on a Flemish entertainment at an inn. Men, women and children gathered around a table enjoying food. Servants bringing drinks and food, a woman near the fire preparing food. A man and a woman bringing apples to the table, standing on a staircase. A sitting man touching the belly of a pregnant woman. A cat on the floor eating remains of the dish.
Made by John Boydell after van Harp.
Medium: Etching / engraving on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 61.5 x 48.5 cm (24.21 x 19.09 inch). Image size: 57.5 x 41.5 cm. (22.64 x 16.34 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Stains in right and lower margin. Brownish edges. Wormholes lower margin, upper right and left. Left marigin small tear restored. Old restoration lower margin in middle. Blank spots in 4 corners. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
INN-NOURISH-EATING-FOOD-DRINKS-ENJOY-MEN-PREGNANT WOMAN-CHILDREN-CAT | RB-TEMPLATE 34-LARGE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in ‘The most capital paintings in England’, London,1765. Published by John Boydell.
Biography artist: Van Harp (1614-1677) was a Flemish painter.
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