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Object Type
Museum number: 1868,0328.369
Title: Series: The Seven Virtues
Description: Temperance (Temperantia); an allegorical figure with the attributes of temperance stands in the centre foreground (clock on her head, bit in her mouth, eyeglasses in her hand, and the blade of a windmill below her foot); around her are representatives of the Seven Liberal Arts, over whom she governs; first state before reworking of inscription; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1560 Engraving
Producer name: Attributed to: Philips Galle; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1560
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 221 millimetres; Width: 288 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment on the series see 1868,0328.372. The preparatory drawing is in Museum Boymans-Beuningen, Rotterdam, signed and dated 1560
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (19.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (138); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (37); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (138) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (32); Lippincott 1999 / The Story of Time (p.181, cat.219)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1999/2000 Dec-Sep, London, National Maritime Museum, Story of Time
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Rendorfer; Previous owner/ex-collection: William Esdaile (L.2617); Previous owner/ex-collection: R Brandt (L.2191)
Acquisition date: 1868
Acquisition notes: "Rendorfer sale/1825" annoted on reverse lower l of print, followed by Esdaile's collector's mark, indicating the place and date of his acquisition of this print
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0328.369

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