[Dutch peasants] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Dutch peasants] [graphic]
Creator: Tobin, James, -1817, printmaker
Contributor: Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685, artist.
Published / Created: [1774]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title devised by curator.
Artist's signature etched backwards in lower right portion of image.
Mounted on page 9 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing by Ostade in Ind. ink in possion. of J.T.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.8 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 24.8 x 35.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 9. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]