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Museum number: 1880,0710.639
Title: Object: Superbia; Series: The Seven Deadly Sins
Description: Pride. A richly dressed allegorical figure in centre foreground admiring herself in mirror with attribute of peacock next to her; a barbershop to the right; various demons and monsters throughout. 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: 226 millimetres; Width: 293 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one of a series of seven, for comment see 1880,0710.641. Preparatory drawing in the 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 (23) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (127); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (20); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (127) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (39)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2012/13, Oct-Feb, Malaga, Museo Picasso Malaga, 'The Grotesque Factor'
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1880,0710.639
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