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Object Type
print
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
Netherlandish
Production date
1570-1600
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
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
Subjects
allegory/personification
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edward Daniell
Acquisition date
1866
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1866,0407.15