Herman van Swanevelt
The Mule Driver
c. 1629-1641
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 320 x 247 mm. (12 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Plate: 313 x 242 mm. (12 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 1 from the series "Landscapes"
Credit Line
Dr. and Mrs. William W. Magruder Fund
Object Number
1986.184.1
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
BMA, "After Rembrandt: The Influence of Dutch Art on Nineteenth- Century French Printmaking," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
BMA, "After Rembrandt: The Influence of Dutch Art on Nineteenth- Century French Printmaking," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Herman van Suanevelt Inventor fecit et excudit"; below image, lower right, in plate "cum privilegio Regis". Verso: center in graphite "112"; center right in graphite "Before additional work at left / + on distant mountains / + with Swanevelt excudit"; lower left in graphite "H. 99iii (of vi) / PM"; lower center in graphite "112"; lower right in graphite circle with "142"
Markings: CM: none
