print
- Museum number
- 1922,0410.264
- Title
- Series: Large Landscapes
- Description
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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
- Production date
- 1553-1556
- Dimensions
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Height: 322 millimetres
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Width: 430 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Sep-Nov, London, NG, 'Dutch Landscape'
1996/7 Oct-Jan, London, NG, Rubens' Landscapes
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,0410.264
