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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1870,0625.673
Title: Object: Hiems Aeolos; Series: The four seasons
Description: Winter: Aeolus holding up a bridle? and sitting on the four winds in a wintry landscape with a frozen river and skaters; also figures pollarding trees and slaughtering animals; in the distance is a storm at sea with boats tossed on the large waves; in the sky the zodiac symbols of Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces; plate 4; after Maarten de Vos. Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Adriaen Collaert; After: Maarten de Vos; Published by: Adriaen Collaert
School/style: Netherlandish
Production date: 1587 (circa)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 215 millimetres; Width: 275 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For comment see 1870,0625.670.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1411.I) (Maarten de Vos); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (The Collaert Dynasty)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: time/seasons; harvesting/haymaking
Associated names: Representation of: Aeolus
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Antonia Brentano; Purchased through: F A C Prestel (sale Frankfurt, 16.v.1870/1079); Purchased through: Colnaghi
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Johann Melchior Birckenstock
Acquisition date: 1870
Acquisition notes: Lugt 345 on verso
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,0625.673

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