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Object Type
Museum number: 1866,0407.15
Description: The Battle of the Money Bags and Strong Boxes. A number of pottery banks (money bags) approach from the left to do battle with the treasure chests, barrels and strong boxes on the right; coins and broken boxes and bags litter the foreground; after Pieter Bruegel; second state with alterations. c.1570 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pieter van der Heyden; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock (published after his death in 1570 by his widow)
School/style
Production date: 1570-1600
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 238 millimetres; Width: 306 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1870,0625.659 for comment.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (53) (Heyden); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (33.II) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (146.I); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (54.I); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (42)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1866
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1866,0407.15

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