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Based on an admired painting by Bonington, this coastal scene shows vendors and customers on the beach, barrels and boats drawn up on shore, cildren sitting beside a pile of fish and a woman carrying a basket from the sea.
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Title: The Fish Market
Engraver:
Charles George Lewis (British, Enfield, Middlesex 1808–1880 Felpham, Sussex)
Artist:
after Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London)
Publisher:
Francis Graham Moon (British, London 1796–1871 Brighton)
Publisher:
Moon, Boys & Graves (London)
Date: 1833
Medium: Etching and engraving on chine collé
Dimensions:
Plate: 11 5/16 × 15 3/4 in. (28.7 × 40 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 17 13/16 in. (32.2 × 45.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number: 62.600.351
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