IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240045 accession number: P.14998-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting by Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and Jan Boeckhorst ['Long John'] (1605-1668), (between 1618 and 1621, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, [as 'Greengrocery Stall' with additional attribution of landscape to Jan Wildens (1586-1653)], entered the Hermitage in 1779; acquired from the R. Walpole collection, Houghton Hall, England, ??-598). A scene at a vegetable market where baskets full of cabbages, onions and squashes fill the left side of the composition. A horse reaches its head from outside the picture plane to smell the cabbages. A female customer wearing a wide-brimmed hat on the right carries a basket laden with artichokes and asparagus and is engaged in buying carrots from the female stallholder. The customer is unaware that a small boy crouching at the centre is emptying her purse of money as she haggles. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: An encircled 'K' in the FM annotated Nagler and large 'K' in the annotated Wessely (Earlom) refer to this Kerrich print. This print is recorded in a handwritten Museum register of loose Kerrich prints as no. 6 ('after Synders & Long John by Earlom 'the Herb Market' [mezzot.] / Houghton Coll.) in the Kerrich 'Portfolio marked Py'. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich, 1872 (received 1873) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240045 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint TECHNIQUES ---------- stipple TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1779 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1779 creation date latest: 1779 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Earlom, Richard maker: Boydell, John maker: Farington, Joseph maker: Snyders, Frans maker: Boeckhorst, Jan