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Cornelis Visscher

The Ford, plate 1 from Four Landscapes

c. 1649-58
Engraving on paper
26.7 × 21.3 cm (10.5 × 8.4 in)

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A professional engraver and draftsman, Visscher produced almost 200 engravings-including portraits and genre scenes of his own design-in his mere twenty-nine years of life.

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