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Summers Evening

March 1, 1794
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Summers Evening
  • Engraver: Victor Marie Picot (French, Monthières 1744–1802 Amiens)
  • Etcher: Thomas Letton (British, active 1780–84)
  • Artist: After Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, Strasbourg 1740–1812 London)
  • Publisher: Charles Knight I (British, 1743–ca. 1826)
  • Date: March 1, 1794
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 17 7/8 × 22 1/2 in. (45.4 × 57.2 cm)
    Sheet: 20 in. × 25 7/8 in. (50.8 × 65.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.63.916
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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