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Object Type
Museum number: 1868,0328.371
Title: Series: The Seven Virtues
Description: Faith (Fides); church interior with a nun standing on the lid of the opened grave of Christ with the Tablets of the Law (Old Testament) on her head and an opened book signifying the New Testament in her right hand; the congregation gathers around her to receive the sacraments; a monk giving a sermon from the pulpit at right; first state with address of Hieronymus Cock; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1559 Engraving
Producer name: Attributed to: Philips Galle; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1559
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 223 millimetres; Width: 293 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment on the series see 1868,0328.372. The preparatory drawing is in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, dated 1559. For an extensive commentary on this print, see Bernd W. Krysmanski, 'Hogarth's 'Enthusiasm Delineated: Nachahmung als Kritik am Kennertum, Eine Werkanalyse, Zugleich ein Einblick in das sarkastisch-aufgeklärte Denken eines "Künstlerrebellen" im englischen 18. Jahrhundert' (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1996): vol. I, pp. 778-782.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (13.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (132.I); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (31.I); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (132.I) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (32)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: William Esdaile (L.2617); Previous owner/ex-collection: R Brandt (L.2191)
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0328.371

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