print
- Museum number
- 1957,0413.15
- Title
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Object: Ver
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Series: The Four Seasons
- Description
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Spring: in foreground, to left, musicians, seated on a platform, play on lour musical instruments mostly shawms and a tambourine; to right a group of women and children, viewed from behind, process holding garlands of flowers, while in the centre, others dance in a ring; beyond, a procession with men playing musical instruments and heading by a person carying a lady's smock, approaches through an archway in the garden; to left, a horse-drawn carriage; the whole set within an oval; personifications of spring fill the four corners of the rectangle framing the oval
Engraving
- Production date
- 1580 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 219 millimetres
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Width: 304 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- All the prints in the sequence 1957,0413.15 to 258 came as a group from the Stradanus albums put together personally by Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland(the tabs in the corners are characteristic): see Antony Griffiths, 'Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland and her albums of prints' in 'Festschrift for Marjorie B.Cohn' ed. C.Bowen and others, Cambridge Mass. 2001. The ablums were sold complete at the Northumberland sale in 1957 and subsequently broken up, with the BM selecting the prints that it lacked in its own collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1957
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1957,0413.15
