A Village Festival, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger

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A Village Festival, With a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony. Brueghel, Pieter, the younger (Flemish, c.1564-1637/8). Oil on panel, height 118.1 cm, width 158.4 cm, 1632.

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Accession Number: 1192
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 766 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 181.10kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2012:07:30 13:59:13

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