An Old Woman Spinning, by Michael Sweerts

An image of An Old Woman Spinning. Sweerts, Michael (Flemish, 1624-1664). Oil on canvas, height 43 cm, width 34 cm, 1646-1648.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

An Old Woman Spinning. Sweerts, Michael (Flemish, 1624-1664). Oil on canvas, height 43 cm, width 34 cm, 1646-1648.

Image data

Accession Number: PD.145-1994
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 825 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 587.42kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:02:24 15:22:57

Key words

17th Century aged caps clothes clothing costume direct gaze distaff elderly fashion female Fitz_PDP Flemish gaze industry lady linen Michael Sweerts Michiel Sweerts old old age old woman painting peasants poor portraits poverty spindle spinning Sweerts three quarter woman workers working

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "An Old Woman Spinning, by Michael Sweerts"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-218888 Accessed: 2024-12-22 12:46:49

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-218888
            |title=An Old Woman Spinning, by Michael Sweerts
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 12:46:49|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-218888

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/PD_145_1994_201402_adn21_dc2.jpg"
        alt="An Old Woman Spinning"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">An Old Woman Spinning, by Michael Sweerts</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>