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Object Type
Museum number: 1866,0407.43
Description: The Kermis of St George; a village centre with peasants engaged in myriad activities: dancing to two bagpipes, drinking at the right foreground, playing ball games at left foreground, enacting a mock battle between St George and the dragon at left middleground, watching a play performed at right background, and shooting arrows at a windmill in left background; the pennant of St George hangs from the inn at right foreground. In the centre 11 men in lines doing a dance, holding two ends of a sword each and ducking under the arch (similar to English longsword dancing); after Pieter Bruegel; third state with address of Bertrand but before additional captions Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Johannes van Doetecum I (attributed); Print made by: Lucas van Doetecum (attributed); After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Pierre Bertrand (?)
School/style
Production date: 1560-1570 (c.)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 332 millimetres; Width: 519 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1870,0625.650 for commentary and the first state of this print and attitudes toward peasant festivities.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (42.III) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (207) (undescribed state); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (52.III); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (207) (after P. Bruegel, undescribed state)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1866
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1866,0407.43
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