IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240087 accession number: P.15025-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After a lost painting which was thought in the eighteenth century to be by Haarlem painter, Adriaen Brouwer (1605/1606-1638) and which belonged to Bourchier Cleeve of Foots Cray Place, Kent (see Notes). A Blacksmith's forge seen in semi-darkness, the furnace at the centre emanating light and creating shadows to left and right. Two figures are at work; one, seen from behind, holds an object in the furnace at the centre with his right hand and pulls on a chain with his left to operate the bellows seen on the right. A second figure to the right lifts up a hammer in his right hand to beat an object from the furnace on an anvil. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in graphite in large script on the verso presumably relates to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240087 TECHNIQUES ---------- à la poupée TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: McArdell, James maker: McArdell, James maker: Brouwer, Adriaen