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 Voorlighting

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Het committè van Voorlighting

Published

[1796]

aquatint
image: 25.4 x 20.5 cm; plate: 27.5 x 22 cm; sheet: 29.5 x 23.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2911
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 9.
Plate number 9 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A lamp-lighter (left) stands dejectedly on his ladder which rests against a stone obelisk supporting a lamp whose glass is broken. The light has been extinguished by a blast from the head of a cherub emerging from clouds (right). A man wearing a cocked hat standing by the lamp-post tries in vain to get a spark from a flint. A stout citizen bends over a cup held by an old woman seated on the right, he stirs it and blows upon it, evidently trying to kindle a light. A dog befouls the obelisk.

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