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Object Type
Museum number: 1846,0509.137
Description: Skating before the Saint George's Gate, Antwerp; a bridge with wagons leads to city gate across middle ground, while skaters fill the frozen canal; reversed copy after engraving by Hieronymus Cock after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1565 Engraving
Producer name: After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Ferrando Bertelli
School/style
Production date: 1565
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 244 millimetres; Width: 289 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For the first state of original print and commentary, see 1931,1114.426.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (41) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder; copy); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (206); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (51) (copy); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (206) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Antwerp (city)
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1846
Acquisition notes: The invoice for £4 for the purchase of this print, made out by W.B.Tiffin to G.Cumberland, dated 20 October 1823, is bound in the P&D Letter Book for 1802-1847, f.12.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1846,0509.137

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