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Museum number: 1851,1213.92
Description: Patience. The allegorical figure of patience sits chained to a block in centre foreground with a cross held in her praying hands; around her are arrayed various demonic creatures; to the right a hollow tree trunk filled with creatures, figures and birds; to the left a river filled with more strange creatures and odd boats; on the opposite shore a hollow egg creature with a man emerging from it; in the far distance a town along the river and on the horizon a setting sun; first state before reworking of plate; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1557 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pieter van der Heyden; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
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Production date: 1557
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Dimensions: Height: 334 millimetres; Width: 430 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Related compositionally to the series of Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (20.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (124); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (15); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (124) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (38)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1851,1213.92

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