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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1870,0625.12
Title: Series: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac
Description: August/ Virgo; reverse copy after Jost Amman. Segment of a circle with peasants harvesting grain on the left and hawkers on the right. A farm in the background. Virgo as a woman holding a flower in the clouds, centre left. Engraving
Producer name: After: Jost Amman
School/style: German
Production date: 1555-1600
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 60 millimetres; Width: 266 millimetres
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Curator's comments: BM does not have the corresponding etching from Amman's series (New Hollstein e.128). See Curatorial Comment for 1870,0625.5 for the engravings series of reverse copies after Amman and 1845,0809.1596 for Amman's series of etchings.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (e.128) (Copy); Andresen 1864-78 / Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur ... von dem letzten Drittel des 16 Jahrhunderts bis zum Schluss des 18 Jahrhunderts (I.167); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (IX.354.4) (as Amman)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2010 Jan - April, London, BM, German Hunting Scenes
Subjects: time/seasons; zodiac; harvesting/haymaking
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Antonia Brentano; Purchased through: F A C Prestel (sale Frankfurt, 16.v.1870/46); Purchased through: Colnaghi
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Johann Melchior Birckenstock
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,0625.12
Conservation: Treatment: 07 Oct 2009

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