print
- Museum number
- 1948,0410.4.217
- Title
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Object: Aestas
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Series: The Four Seasons
- Description
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Plate 2: Summer. Several peasants harvesting wheat, one figure drinking from a large jug and his leg and sickle extend beyond the frame of image into lower margin, a village and church at left middleground, and fields of hay extending back into distance on right. 1570
Engraving
- Production date
- 1570
- Dimensions
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Height: 222 millimetres
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Width: 284 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of a series of four, for comment see 1948,0410.4.218.
A preparatory drawing for this print in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, is signed and dated 1568. The Latin verse to the right is taken from an epigram by Julian; see Ilya Veldeman, 'Seasons, planets and temperaments in the work of Maarten van Heemskerck; cosmo-astrological allegory in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints,' in Simiolus 11, no. 3/4 (1980), pp. 159-60.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0410.4.217
