Shipping Scene from the Collection of Alexander Nisbit, 1720s

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series Title

Shipping Scenes

Medium

mezzotint and etching printed in green and black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 32.5 x 40 cm (12 13/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

sheet: 38.5 x 45.9 cm (15 3/16 x 18 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Accession Number

2001.118.17.3

Artists / Makers

Elisha Kirkall (artist) English, c. 1682 - 1742

Willem van de Velde the Elder (artist after) Dutch, 1611 - 1693

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: W. Vanderveld pinx; lower center in plate:E Collectione Alexandri Nisbet Pictoris; lower right in plate: E Kirkall Fecit

Provenance

Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth (Lugt 719); (sale, Christie's London, 1984, no. 165); Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2004 by NGA.