A Fruit Piece, from The Houghton Gallery
Richard Earlom (After Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682-1749))
1781
- Medium
- Mezzotint with etching, with engraved inscription, in black on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 50.4 × 38.7 cm (19 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.); Plate: 55.8 × 41.3 cm (22 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 65.2 × 51 cm (25 11/16 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Richard Earlom was one of many talented printmakers to work on John Boydell’s massive printing project to reproduce Sir Robert Walpole’s painting collection at Houghton. The finished two-volume book included 162 prints, including 27 by Earlom. (The original works were sold to Catherine the Great and are now in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.) Earlom was particularly favored for his ability to re-create painterly tones in his mezzotints, as is evidenced by this Fruit Piece and Flower Piece.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
