A barber smoking a pipe, by Hendrick Avercamp

An image of A barber smoking a pipe. Avercamp, Hendrick (Dutch, 1585-1634). Pen and brown ink with watercolour over black chalk, with some bodycolour and a line of brown ink bordering it on all sides, on paper, height 100 mm, width 72 mm.

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A barber smoking a pipe. Avercamp, Hendrick (Dutch, 1585-1634). Pen and brown ink with watercolour over black chalk, with some bodycolour and a line of brown ink bordering it on all sides, on paper, height 100 mm, width 72 mm.

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Accession Number: PD.87-1963
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 763 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 819.06kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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17th Century Avercamp chalk clothes clothing coat drawing Dutch Fitz_PDP genre genre scenes hats Hendrick Avercamp male overcoat smoker smoking smoking a pipe watercolour

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