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Buying Fish, by George Morland

Image attached to PD.16-1997

An image of Buying Fish. Morland, George (British, 1763-1804). Oil on panel, height 31.2 cm, width 37.2 cm. Production Note: Probably a sketch for Morland's larger painting of this subject (25x30in.), engraved in mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1799.

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Buying Fish. Morland, George (British, 1763-1804). Oil on panel, height 31.2 cm, width 37.2 cm. Production Note: Probably a sketch for Morland's larger painting of this subject (25x30in.), engraved in mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1799.

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  • Accession Number: PD.16-1997
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 857 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 147.34kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2012:12:20 11:39:30

Key words

18th Century animal animals baskets beach British School buying coast coastal dogs English equestrian exterior female fish fisherfolk fisherman fisherwoman fisherwomen Fitz_PDP genre George Morland Georgian horseback horses Morland mounted oil on panel painting peasants seashore seller selling shore vendor white horse woman

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rgb(175,140,102), rgb(78,46,24), rgb(47,34,21), rgb(94,68,39), rgb(204,187,156), rgb(125,74,32), rgb(142,98,54), rgb(212,181,137), rgb(123,81,47), rgb(212,169,127), rgb(60,76,60)

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