print
- Museum number
- 1948,0410.4.218
- Title
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Object: Autumnus
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Series: The Four Seasons
- Description
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Plate 3: Autumn. Peasants bleeding a pig and butchering another animal at left, two small children blowing up a bladder in front of a well in foreground, a small cottage in background at left, men vintaging in background; first state before number; after Hans Bol. 1570
Engraving
- Production date
- 1570
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres
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Width: 285 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of a series of four numbered prints of the Seasons published by Cock in 1570, the designs for two of which are by Bruegel, the other two are by Hans Bol. A complete set is bound in a volume (1948,0410.4.216-219). For other prints of this series see also F,1.23-24 and 1868,0612.1559. For another impression of this print see F,1.13.
Literature: S. Hautekeete, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.no.71.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0410.4.218
