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Kitchen scene with a kitchen maid preparing fish, and Christ at Emmaus in the room behind her Kitchen and market scenes with Biblical scenes in the background
Printmaker:
Matham, Jacob
Draughtsman:
Aertsen, Pieter
(After)
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
1600s
Production date:
AD 1603
Accession number: 23.I.10-57
Primary reference Number: 119677
Bartsch: 165
Hollstein Dutch and Flemish: 320
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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