Rearing Horse
Object Details
- artist attribution
- Van Dyck, Anthony
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- artist attribution
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Description
- Mezzotint after painting attributed to Anthony Van Dyck but now given to Rubens, once in the Small Breakfast Room at Houghton. Sent to the Hermitage Palace in 1779; sold 1931; now in private collection. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. At Houghton Hall the painting was hung as a pair with A Greyhound’s Head by Wyck, and the two prints were mounted on the same page in the volume.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1777
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.73
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.73
- Object Name
- print, mezzotint
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- plate: 29.2 cm x 18.5 cm; 11 1/2 in x 7 9/32 in
- overall: 32.6 cm x 22 cm; 12 27/32 in x 8 21/32 in
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Horses
- Record ID
- nmah_1694414
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-0c59-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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