print; ornament print

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Object Type: print; ornament print
Museum number: 1877,0811.857
Title: Series: The Twelve Months
Description: Plate 8: August; with a peasant at right carrying a bundle of corn and holding a sickle; from a series of twelve etchings of peasants in landscapes with blackwork ornaments at upper left or r. c.1638 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Elias Holl II; Published by: Paulus Fürst
School/style
Production date: 1638 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Nuremberg
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 105 millimetres; Width: 90 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See Curatorial Comment for 1877,0811.850.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ornament; time/seasons; harvesting/haymaking
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev John Burleigh James (L.1425); Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale March - May 1877/2521); Purchased through: Goupil
Acquisition date: 1877
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1877,0811.857

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