A village in the mountains, by Jan Brueghel, the elder

An image of A village in the mountains. Brueghel, Jan, the elder (Flemish, 1568-1625). Pen and brown ink, grey, green and blue wash, with a line of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper, height 214 mm, width 275 mm, 1612. Production Note: Probably the town of Spa.

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A village in the mountains. Brueghel, Jan, the elder (Flemish, 1568-1625). Pen and brown ink, grey, green and blue wash, with a line of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper, height 214 mm, width 275 mm, 1612. Production Note: Probably the town of Spa.

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Accession Number: PD.212-1963
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 795 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 213.98kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2016:03:03 11:54:11

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