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Object Type
Museum number: 1922,0410.264
Title: Series: Large Landscapes
Description: Solicitudo Rustica; two figures rest under a tree at right foreground, while a peasant drives a horse and wagon on the road beyond them; a church and steeple rises from the town below them; beyond a wide vista opens up of a terrain criss-crossed by rivers and extended to jagged mountains in the left background; even further in the distance to the right one of the rivers leads to the horizon and mountains rise along its far banks; the valley is filled with trees, towns, livestock and plowed fields, and the rivers are dotted with skiffs and boats; first state with address of Hieronymus Cock; 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: 322 millimetres; Width: 430 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twelve; for comment see 1922,0410.265. For the preparatory drawing see 1963,1012.1; the area corresponding to the right foreground of the etching is left blank, thus further suggesting that the main staffage figures in the print were added later.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (55.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (12); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (7.I); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (12.I) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (28.7)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1986 Sep-Nov, London, NG, 'Dutch Landscape' 1996/7 Oct-Jan, London, NG, Rubens' Landscapes
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1922
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1922,0410.264

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