IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240116 accession number: P.15087-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting by Rubens. Three children play with a large dog in an interior. At the centre, a young boy rides on the dog's back, grasping the chain attached to the collar around its neck, the dog turning its head to lick at the boy's face. An older girl holds the collar around the dog's neck to the left. A toddler standing in a baby walker at the far right plays with the dog's tail. The baby wears a padded roll around its head known as a "pudding" which was intended to protect the head in case of falls. Leading strings, designed to help guide a child in walking, are attached to the back of the baby's gown at the shoulders. An open door leads into a hallway on the right and four busts are arranged along the top of a decorative niche to the left. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in pen and ink on the verso presumably relates to Vansittart's own cataloguing system and the number written in graphite on the recto to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240116 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1747 - 1803 creation date earliest: 1747 creation date latest: 1803 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Tassaert, Philippe Joseph maker: Tassaert, Philippe Joseph maker: Rubens, Peter Paul