# Still Life of Fruit and Flowers

- By: Richard Earlom (London, ca. –1822)
- Date: 1723
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 556 mm x width 420 mm
- Credit line: Jonkheer P.A. van den Velden Bequest, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-1892-A-17633--e9c3149fe91809d549594dde06fd93d9)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/exqBO/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Right before Empress Catherine the Great of Russia bought Sir Robert Walpole’s entire art collection, Richard Earlom made large prints of several of the famous paintings in it as mementos. Among them was this 1723 still life by Jan van Huysum. Earlom worked in mezzotint, a technique also called the ‘black manner’. This method made it possible to produce soft, subtle transitions between a wealth of grey tones, creating a velvety black surface.