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Object Type
print
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
Netherlandish
Production date
1560-1570
(c.)
Materials
paper
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
Representation of:
St George
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edward Daniell
Acquisition date
1866
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1866,0407.43
Conservation
Treatment
: 06 Feb 2015