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Museum number: 1924,0714.28
Description: The Witch of Malleghem. The witch and her assistants prepare to cut stones of foolishness out of the heads of three victims in the foreground; around them gathers a crowd to witness the surgery; third state before address of Theodoor Galle; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1559 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pieter van der Heyden; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1559
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 327 millimetres; Width: 470 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: It is possible that the print originally included six lines of Flemish verse in the lower margin, which has been trimmed on this impression. If so, this would be Lebeer 28.III rather than 28.II, as one might also expect since he only records Bruegel's signature in the third state. This would also more closely accord with Bastelaer's description of the second state of this print.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (38.III) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (193.II); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (28.II or III); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (193.II) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (47)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2000 May-Jul, Brighton, Museum and Art Gallery, 'Carnivalesque' 2000 Jul-Sep, Nottingham, Castle Museum, 'Carnivalesque' 2000 Oct-Dec, Edinburgh, City Art Centre, 'Carnivalesque'
Subjects: witch/wizard; surgeon
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1924
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1924,0714.28
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