The Element of Water (after Jacopo Amigoni)
John Simon (Normandy c. 1675 – London 1754)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1675 - 1754
Materials
Paper
Measurements
467 mm (H)363 mm (W)358 mm (H)255 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401270
Summary
Print, engraving, stuck on panel, The Element of Water (after Jacopo Amigoni) by John Simon (Normandy c. 1675 – London 1754). The Element of Water. Landscape with two figures. A fisherman wearing a blue coat, brown breeches and white socks holds a fishing net and presents a fish to a woman. She sits dressed in a blue skirt and brown bodice with a white shirt, next to a basket of fish. Trees and rocks in the background. Amigoni ivt, J. Simon fecit.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
John Simon (Normandy c. 1675 – London 1754), engraver (printmaker) after Jacopo Amigoni (Naples c.1682 - Madrid 1752), artist