2016.336: The Purser
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2016.336
- People
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Henri Merke, Swiss (Niederweningen, Zürich, Switzerland c. 1760 - c. 1820)
After Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
Published by Ackermann & Co., British (1792 - 1991)
- Title
- The Purser
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- February 15, 1799
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/356990
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching with aquatint
- Technique
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- sheet: 26 × 20.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, below image: Rowlandson delin Merke sculp / N.o 6 / PURSER / London Pub.d Feb.y 15 1799 by R. Ackermann 101 Strand
- inscription: below image, graphite: [lower left:] [?]362; [lower right:] [illegible]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Jsrael Ber Neumann, Berlin, Munich, and New York, by descent; to Elsa Schmid Neumann, his wife, 1961, by descent; to Peter G. Neumann, their son, Palo Alto, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. Neumann
- Accession Year
- 2016
- Object Number
- 2016.336
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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