Bergami Pears–or–Choice Fruit !!
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
plate: 13 11/16 x 9 3/4 in. (34.7 x 24.7 cm) sheet: 14 5/8 x 10 7/16 in. (37.2 x 26.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Adele S. Gollin, 1976
Accession Number
1976.602.34
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, British, 19th century|S. W. Fores|Bartolommeo Bergami|Caroline of Brunswick · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, British, 19th century** is not the name of a single individual but a standard museum attribution used for works whose creators remain unidentified yet are clearly British and date to the 1800s. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, employ this designation for hundreds of drawings, prints, designs, and decorative studies that lack signatures or firm documentary ...