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Museum number: 1870,0625.660
Description: The Alchemist; alchemist working at stove at left, robed figure reading instructions from manual at r; a fool with bellows and the alchemist's wife with an empty purse in centre; in right background, alchemist and his wife taking their three children to the hospital, identified with inscription over the door; first state with address of Hieronymus Cock; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. c.1558 Engraving
Producer name: Attributed to: Philips Galle; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1558 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 324 millimetres; Width: 442 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The preparatory drawing is in Berlin dated 1558. Literature: D. Freedberg, ed. The Prints of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, exh. cat., Tokyo, 1989, no. 27 (iconographic explanation of print); Literature: Susan Dackerman et al., 'Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Yale UP, 2011, cat.no.96.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (40.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (197.I); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (27.I); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (197.II) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (33)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: alchemist/alchemy; reading/writing
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Antonia Brentano; Purchased through: F A C Prestel (sale Frankfurt, 16.v.1870/1049); Purchased through: Colnaghi
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,0625.660

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