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Object Type
print
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
German
Production date
1595
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
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
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Johann Melchior Birckenstock
Acquisition date
1870
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1870,0625.649