The Little Marine - Souvenir of Medway
Medium
Etching and aquatint; between third and fourth states of six
Dimensions
Plate: 6 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (16.5 x 21.5 cm) Sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 3/16 in. (22.5 x 31 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.19
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...