Man on a river bank holding a rope attached to an eel, by Abraham van Diepenbeeck

An image of Man on a river bank holding a rope attached to an eel; background, city and river with a net-fisherman in a dinghy. Diepenbeeck, Abraham Jansz. van (Flemish, 1596-1675). Pen and brown ink with wash and corrections in white, over graphite, within drawn brown ink line, on laid paper. Height, drawn area, 53 mm, width, drawn area, 72 mm; height, sheet size, 54 mm, width, sheet size, 73 mm, in or before 1631. Production Note: Preparatory drawing for p. 12 of the emblem book by Anton van Bourgoinge, 'Ghebreken der Tonghe', Antwerp, 1631.

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Man on a river bank holding a rope attached to an eel; background, city and river with a net-fisherman in a dinghy. Diepenbeeck, Abraham Jansz. van (Flemish, 1596-1675). Pen and brown ink with wash and corrections in white, over graphite, within drawn brown ink line, on laid paper. Height, drawn area, 53 mm, width, drawn area, 72 mm; height, sheet size, 54 mm, width, sheet size, 73 mm, in or before 1631. Production Note: Preparatory drawing for p. 12 of the emblem book by Anton van Bourgoinge, 'Ghebreken der Tonghe', Antwerp, 1631.

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Accession Number: PD.69-1964
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 760 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
Filesize: 208.61kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2016:06:01 14:44:49

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