A Jetty in England

A Jetty in England by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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 · 18471898

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...

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