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Object Type
print
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
School/style
Netherlandish
Production date
1557
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
334 millimetres
Width:
430 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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
Subjects
virtues and vices
Associated names
Representation of:
St James the Greater
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Walter Benjamin Tiffin
Acquisition date
1851
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1851,1213.92