A fishing ground in the Levant: fishermen bring their nets to land, while women wait and talk. Engraving by J. Aliamet after C.J. Vernet.

  • Vernet, Joseph, 1714-1789.
Date:
[1760?]
Reference:
2823100i
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Description

Right, a monumental gateway. In the distance, a road bridge, a fortified town and mountains. A dog drinks from the water, suggesting a river or estuary rather than the Mediterranean

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [Aliamet], [1760?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 29.8 x 43.2 cm

Contributors

Lettering

2me vue du Levant. J. Vernet pinxit. Aliamet sculpsit.

References note

One of two prints advertised in the newspaper Mercure, January 1761
Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, vol. 1, Paris 1931, p. 29, no. 15

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2823100i

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