A Fruit Piece
date: label: date made
content: 1781
name: label: engraver
content: Earlom, Richard
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
label: delineator
content: Farington, Joseph
label: original artist
content: Huysum, Jan van
notes: label: Description
content: Mezzotint from George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Removed from the binding for framing in 1894. Companion print to A Flower Piece, also after van Huysum. In the volume's table of contents, the publisher described these two prints as surpassing, "in point of execution, every print before engraved in this manner."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Food
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Gregory M. Rubinstein. Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.02.90
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.02.90
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: mezzotint
label: Object Type
content: Mezzotint
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56.5 cm x 43 cm; 22 1/4 in x 16 15/16 in