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Museum number: 1866,0407.16
Description: Elck (Everyman). a bearded, near-sighted man searches with a lantern through barrels, baskets and sacks in the centre foreground; the same figure appears again in the left foreground in a barrel, twice in the right middleground, and in the left middleground where he is engaged in a match of tug-of-war with another man; various sacks and parcels are inscribed with owners' marks; dice and cards are strewn in foreground; first state with address of Hieronymus Cock; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. c.1558 Engraving
Producer name: Attributed to: Pieter van der Heyden; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
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Production date: 1558-1560
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Dimensions: Height: 247 millimetres; Width: 292 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Preparatory drawing in the British Museum (1854,0628.36), signed and dated 1558; see Riggs, 'Pieter Bruegel and his Publisher,' in 'Pieter Bruegel und seine Welt,' Berlin, 1979, for discussion of the owners' marks added to the sacks and barrels, and what they reveal about the relationship between Cock and Bruegel.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (35.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (152.I); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (26.I); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (152.I) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (44)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2004 Jan-April, London, National Gallery, 'Bosch and Bruegel:...' 2017 11 Feb-4 Jun, Bath, The Holburne Museum, Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty 2017-18 Sept-Jan, BM, G90, The Business of Prints
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1866
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1866,0407.16
Conservation: Treatment: 29 Dec 2003; Treatment: 09 Dec 2003

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