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Museum number: 1870,0625.649
Title: Series: Allegorical Landscapes
Description: River landscape with Daedalus and Icarus at top centre, a river winding from foreground into distance around a large hill, several large ships on river; damaged at lower corners and lower centre; after Pieter Bruegel. c.1595 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Simon Novellanus; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Joris Hoefnagel
School/style
Production date: 1595 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 274 millimetres; Width: 336 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one of a series of allegorical landscapes after Cornelis Cort and Pieter Bruegel, for comment see 1874,0808.2060. For another impression, see 1864,0611.118.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (undescribed); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (2.1); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (82.I); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (unnumbered) (for comment on series see nos.136-137; under prints after Cornelis Cort); Vignau-Wilberg 2017 / Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel Art and Science around 1600 (G 10 c)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; classical mythology
Associated names: Representation of: Icarus; Representation of: Daedalus
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Antonia Brentano; Purchased through: F A C Prestel (sale Frankfurt, 16.v.1870/1037); Purchased through: Colnaghi
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,0625.649

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