An Old Woman Spinning, by Michael Sweerts

An image of An Old Woman Spinning. Sweerts, Michael (Flemish, 1624-1664). Oil on canvas, height 43 cm, width 34 cm, 1646-1648.

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An Old Woman Spinning. Sweerts, Michael (Flemish, 1624-1664). Oil on canvas, height 43 cm, width 34 cm, 1646-1648.

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Accession Number: PD.145-1994
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 825 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 587.42kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:02:24 15:22:57

Key words

17th Century aged caps clothes clothing costume direct gaze distaff elderly fashion female Fitz_PDP Flemish gaze industry lady linen Michael Sweerts Michiel Sweerts old old age old woman painting peasants poor portraits poverty spindle spinning Sweerts three quarter woman workers working

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