Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Het Committè van de Vivres

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Het Committè van de Vivres

Published

[1796]

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image: 25.3 x 20.7 cm; plate: 27.5 x 21.9 cm; sheet: 29.3 x 23.6 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2909
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 7.
Plate number 7 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Two committee-men make requisitions from a peasant and a barrow-woman. One takes a fish from the creel on the fisherman's back, and puts it into a small cornucopia which he holds. The victim, who wears trousers and sabots filled with straw, holds a paper, 'Recepisse', and clenches his fist, furious at receiving a receipt instead of cash. The other, in back view, has taken a handful of turnips, the old woman looks at him with a hungry, puzzled stare.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department