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print
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title-page
Object Type
print
title-page
Museum number
1932,0213.289
Title
Series:
The Leisure Series
Description
Plate 1: Title written on a stone block at centre, a peasant boy sleeping on top of the block, with gourd and staff; title-page of a series of sixteen plates; after Abraham Bloemaert Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Cornelis Bloemaert
After:
Abraham Bloemaert
Published by:
Isack Greve
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1625
(c.)
Production place
Published in:
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
111 millimetres
Width:
153 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This impression of the title-page is a later and undescribed state of Roethlisberger 297. For earlier impressions see D,7.198 and Gg,4M.14. For comment of the series see D,7.198. The same boy appears on a sheet of studies in black chalk in the Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge.
Bibliographic references
Roethlisberger 1993 / Abraham Bloemaert and his sons: Paintings and prints
(297)
(state not described)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(212-215)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
peasant/villager
Associated names
Associated with:
Hendrik de Roij
(author of Latin verses)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Walter Edwin Ledger
(L.2636c)
Acquisition date
1932
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1932,0213.289