Jan Porcellis (Ghent 1580-1632 Zouterwoude)

Studies of fishermen and a fisherwoman toiling on the shore, with fishing vessels in the distance

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Jan Porcellis (Ghent 1580-1632 Zouterwoude)
Studies of fishermen and a fisherwoman toiling on the shore, with fishing vessels in the distance
six signed with initials 'IP'
pen and brown ink, brown wash, on yellow prepared paper
from 2¾ to 3½ x 2 5/8 x 3¼ in. (7 to 8.9 x 6.7 to 8.3 cm.)
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Similar in subject to Porcellis' series of fifteen drawings and twenty etchings of fishermen on the shore titled Verscheyden stranden en water gesichten, published in Haarlem in the 1620s (Hollstein XVII, 1-17).

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