Perruchia Collier, des Isles Maldives

Alexander Peroquit

  • Titles Perruchia Collier, des Isles Maldives (Descriptive)
  • Medium hand-colored engraving
  • Dimensions sheet (irregular): 18 7/16 × 13 1/4 in. (46.8 × 33.7 cm) plate: 9 15/16 × 8 3/16 in. (25.2 × 20.8 cm) image: 8 1/2 × 6 7/8 in. (21.6 × 17.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.744.1998
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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In the foreground, a gentleman in a red coat and black hat rides a brown horse next to a lady in a white dress riding a white horse. The horses run alongside a wooden fence. In the background, multiple gentleman riding horses are seen.
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Scene of a house surrounds with trees with a mountain landscape in the background.