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Museum number: 1880,0710.638
Title: Object: Gula; Series: The Seven Deadly Sins
Description: Gluttony. An allegorical figure of a woman in sixteenth-century dress and a fifteenth-century head-dress sits on top of her attribute, a pig, guzzling from a pitcher; around her at the table several demons and nude women eat and drink to excess; behind them to the left a man vomits over a bridge into a river; on far left a giant man imprisoned in a building from which only his head emerges at top; in right background a windmill in the shape of a man's head being force-fed; various monsters eating and drinking throughout; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1558 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pieter van der Heyden; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
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Production date: 1558
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Dimensions: Height: 223 millimetres; Width: 294 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one of a series of seven, for comment see 1880,0710.641. Preparatory drawing in Institut Néerlandais (Fondation Custodia), Paris, signed and dated 1557
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (25) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (129); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (22); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (129) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (39)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2001 May-Aug, Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Pieter Bruegel...' 2001 Sep-Dec, NY, Met Mus of Art, 'Pieter Bruegel...' 2012/13, Oct-Feb, Malaga, Museo Picasso Malaga, 'The Grotesque Factor'
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Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1880,0710.638
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