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Object Type
Museum number: 1874,1212.449
Description: The Death of the Virgin; the haloed Virgin lies propped up in a canopied bed in right middleground, holding a candle and surrounded by the apostles and many other figures; another figure, possibly St John the Evangelist, sits asleep by the fire in the left foreground; a table covered with dishes and jugs fills the centre foreground in front of the bed; second state with date erased; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. c.1574 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Philips Galle; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1574 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 307 millimetres; Width: 415 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Based on a grisaille painting on panel by Bruegel done for Antwerp humanist, antiquarian and geographer Abraham Ortelius, now in Upton House, near Banbury, England. Ortelius had the painting engraved in 1574, and the print reproduces the image in the same direction. The date 1574 is lettered on at the lower edge of the bottom margin of the plate in the first state.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (9.II) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (116); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (86.II); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (116) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: St John the Evangelist (?)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1874
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1874,1212.449

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