7.2000: Announcement and Instructions on the Use of the Small Firehose and Garden Spouts...useful to save country houses from fire, and the means by which dry gardens, plants, and foliage, [can be] watered.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

7.2000

People

Attributed to Jan van der Heyden, Dutch (Gorkum 1637 - 1712 Amsterdam)

Title

Announcement and Instructions on the Use of the Small Firehose and Garden Spouts...useful to save country houses from fire, and the means by which dry gardens, plants, and foliage, [can be] watered.

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Beright en instructie, op't gebruik der kleine Slang-Brand en Tuin-Spuitjes, zo in Ongeval van Brand als om de Plantagien te besproeijn.

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1700

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/186971

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching with letterpress

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 23.5 x 26.5 cm (9 1/4 x 10 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Jan van der Heide der Jonge
• legend: below the image, printer's ink, engraving, Dutch and French: A description of the virtues of the equipment
• inscription: below the image, printer's ink, letterpress, Dutch: Detailed instructions for the use of the equipment, keyed with letters to elements in the image above.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

not in H.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in memory of Lois Orswell

Object Number

7.2000

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Broadside

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