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Black and white engraving of an exterior domestic scene; a man between to horses at an interior gate entrance of a courtyard surrounded by three dogs; a woman is kneeling playing with another dog; figures dressed in 17th century clothes; wooden frame; applied and molded gesso and gilt.
engravings (prints)
engraving (printing process)
paper (fiber product)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
dog (animal)
Elizabethan
fountains
horse (animal)
Unidentified Paper
Stipple Engraved
Dog
Horse
Fountain
Elizabethan Revival
PICTURE
Painted by J.F. Herring, Senr./Engraved by Robert Graves, A.R.A.
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Graves, Robert (Engraver)
After Herring, Sr., J.F. (Painter)
England
28.125 x 33.625 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.656
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