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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1950,0520.446
Title: Object: Aristaeus Inventor Mellis; Series: Pastoral Gods
Description: Aristaios; holding a beehive with more beyond and flying bees; oval plate; after Floris. 1565 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Cort; After: Frans Floris; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style: Netherlandish
Production date: 1565
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 295 millimetres; Width: 220 millimetres
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Curator's comments: From a series of six plates (New Hollstein 166-171; impressions in the BM 1950,0520.443 ... 448).
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (96.I) (Frans Floris); Bierens de Haan 1948 / L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578 (166); Van de Velde 1975 / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570), Leven en Werken (57); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (77); Wouk, Frans Floris / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance. (96)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology
Associated names: Representation of: Aristaios
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Colnaghi
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Liechtenstein
Acquisition date: 1950
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1950,0520.446

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