IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225465 accession number: P.14856-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 1 October 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching and drypoint on laid paper. A full-length portrait of a man carrying two large wicker baskets on his forearms and holding two smaller baskets containing round-shaped fruits? in each hand. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, with the right side turned down, a oversized coat open to a waistcoat and a long apron. He stands on a path, fields behind him with a distant spire rising above the horizon at the far left. Etched on the plate at lower left: 'T; Orde F 1768'. An inscription in pen and ink in the lower margin below the platemark: 'Willet a Gardener at Cambridge 1770'. A transcription of writing from the verso of this print is found on the verso of the artist's board onto which it is laid down: 'John Willet whose Father is a Gardener / He goos [sic] about selling Fruit'. Another impression of this print is in the collection of the British Museum: 1847,0713.60, which is inscribed on the verso, 'D. Randal Printman at Cambridge', although this is likely to have been the name of the printseller or publisher rather than the sitter. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225465 TECHNIQUES ---------- drypoint TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Orde, Thomas IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/P_14856_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 753 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/mid_P_14856_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg height: 681 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/P_14856_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 753 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/preview_P_14856_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg height: 340 pixels width: 250 pixels