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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1872,0511.1227
Title: Object: Invidia (Envy); Series: VII Peccatorum Capitalium (The Seven vices)
Description: Plate 4: Envy. Bust of an old woman eating an apple and with snakes around her neck, in an oval; four putti in each corner, three eating apples; after Philips Galle. Engraving
Producer name: After: Philips Galle; Print made by: Hieronymus Wierix; Published by: Philips Galle
School/style: Netherlandish
Production date: 1612 (before)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 187 millimetres; Width: 133 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is one of a series of seven, for comment see 1872,0511.1223.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1762) (Wierix); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1376); Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (1300)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: virtues and vices
Acquisition name: Donated by: James Hughes Anderdon
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,0511.1227

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