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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G455
People
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, French (Lyon 1736 - 1810 Lyon)
After Jan Asselijn, Dutch (Dieppe c. 1610 - 1652 Amsterdam)
Title
Breach of a Dam in Holland
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Rupture des digues de Hollande
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1782
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276205

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 32.1 × 46 cm (12 5/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
Plate: 36.5 × 48.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 37.3 × 49.6 cm (14 11/16 × 19 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv?
Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. III, no. 83, p. 105; Perez, no. 83, p. 186

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G455
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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