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Fishermen Catching Crayfish on the Rhine - Image 1
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Jan van Aken and Herman Saftleven

Fishermen Catching Crayfish on the Rhine

1649

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Fishermen Catching Crayfish on the Rhine

1649

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 216 × 277 mm. (8 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.22
Susan Dackerman, BMA, "Prints from Utrecht," 4 February - 5 April 1998.

Lara Yeager-Crasselt, BMA, "Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art," February 9 - July 27, 2025.

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Jan van Aken

1613–1660

Dutch, 1614-1661
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Artist

Herman Saftleven

1608–1684

Dutch, 1609-1685; in Utrecht 1632-1685
Meet Herman Saftleven

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