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A Covered Vessel Banked with a Boy Sitting on a Barge

1809

Cornelius Varley

Associated Names

Cornelius Varley

Artist, British, 1781 - 1873

Medium

pen lithograph on buff wove paper
Credit Line

Gift (Partial and Promised) of Judy and Leo Zickler
Dimensions

image: 21.3 x 30.5 cm (8 3/8 x 12 in.)
sheet: 23.5 x 31.4 cm (9 1/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

2005.117.5
Series Title

Etchings of Shipping (Scenery on the Thames)

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

2005

Lowell Libson, Cornelius Varley: The Art of Observation. London, 2005: no. 87.

Inscriptions

lower right in image: London Published by J.& C. Varley Nov. 15 1809

Wikidata ID

Q76337839

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