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A village street with carts and horses, by Jan Brueghel, the elder

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An image of A village street with carts and horses.  Brueghel, Jan, the elder (Flemish, 1568-1625). Pen and brown ink, blue-grey wash, with a line of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper, height 169 mm, width 289 mm, circa 1600.

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A village street with carts and horses. Brueghel, Jan, the elder (Flemish, 1568-1625). Pen and brown ink, blue-grey wash, with a line of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper, height 169 mm, width 289 mm, circa 1600.

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  • Accession Number: PD.210-1963
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 608 pixels
  • Image width: 1023 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 175.16kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2016:04:25 15:42:44

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17th Century architectural architecture Brueghel building carts coach drawing exterior Fitz_PDP Flemish genre genre scenes hansom cab homes horse and cart horse drawn horse drawn carriage horses houses Jan Brueghel the elder Jean Breughel residence roofs rustic stagecoach streets streetscape thatched travel travellers travelling village villagers

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