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Object Type
Museum number: 1877,0210.414
Title: Series: Large Landscapes
Description: Magdalena Poenitens; the figure of Mary Magdalene sits under several tree trunks reading the Bible at lower right; beyond opens a panoramic landscape with cliffs and mountains extending to the right and a precipitous drop to the flat plain of a river valley to the left; on the banks of the river, a large fortified town and at the top of the cliffs to the right perches a monastery with the ascending Magdalen in an aureole above; a figure riding a donkey makes his way along a road which leads from the right foreground through a forest up toward the mountains beyond; second state with plate reworked; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. c.1555 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Johannes van Doetecum I; Print made by: Lucas van Doetecum; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1553-1556
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 323 millimetres; Width: 430 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twelve; for comment see 1922,0410.265.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (51.II) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (8); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (3.II); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (8.II) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (28.3)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1877
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1877,0210.414

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