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Object Type
Museum number: 1864,0611.103
Title: Series: Sailing Vessels
Description: Two Galleys Sailing Behind an Armed Three-Master with Phaethon and Jupiter in the Sky; the three vessels with sails billowing to left, two other ships in the background right and left; a swan (?) in middle foreground and rocks in left foreground; Phaethon being struck down into the sea from the clouds by Jupiter at upper right; first state before address of Theodoor Galle; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. c.1565 Engraving
Producer name: Attributed to: Frans Huys; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1560-1565
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 217 millimetres; Width: 278 millimetres
Curator's comments: For comment on the series see 1864,0611.112.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (70.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (106); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (49); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (106) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (54)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Robert Cook; Purchased through: Sotheby's (6-7.vi.1864/368); Purchased through: Edward Daniell
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1864,0611.103

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