A Jetty in England
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and roulette; second state of eight
Dimensions
Plate: 11 7/8 x 7 15/16 in. (30.2 x 20.2 cm) Sheet: 17 1/16 x 11 3/4 in. (43.3 x 29.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Edna H. Sachs, 1964
Accession Number
64.695.1
About the Artist
Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1847–1898
Félix-Hilaire Buhot was born on July 9, 1847, in Valognes, a small town in Normandy, France, into a modest family—his father a wine merchant and his mother a seller of women's clothes. Orphaned by age seven after losing both parents and his maternal grandmother, he was raised by relatives, including a godfather, and received an early introduction to drawing from his adopted mother's nephew. In 186...