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Balagans or Summer Habitations, with the method of Drying Fish at St, Peter & Paul, Kamschatka

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Date

1792

Artist

Print after John Webber (1751-1793)

Collection

Image Link

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3158399

Additional Makers

Print maker - John Webber; Publisher - John Webber

Description

A thatched building, at the edge of a river where men are fishing with large nets, behind a thatched hut on stilts and a large frame from which hang fish, with figures working, gathering and storing the fish and a woman and child in the foreground, beside a pot hanging from a tripod over a fire; wooded hills in the background to left. 1792. Hand-coloured soft-ground etching.

Inscription

Lettered below the image with the title and 'Vol. III. Book VI. page 375. / I. Webber R.A. fecit / London Pubd. Augt. 1. 1792 by Ino. Webber No. 312 Oxford Street.'

Image Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Image Credit

image © Trustees of the British Museum

Location

Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

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Rivers
Huts
People
Buildings
Cottages

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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