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Object Type
Museum number: 1957,0413.193
Title: Object: Liberi Equi Cursitatio; Series: Equile Ioannis Austriaci
Description: In foreground, a horse walking towards left with one hoof raised, its rein hanging loose; in background a group of horses running wild; an extensive landscape beyond Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Published by: Philips Galle
School/style
Production date: 1578 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 188 millimetres (cut); Width: 256 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The margin is cut off, therefore lacking text at bottom and difficult to ascertain whether first or second state. However according to New Hollstein (Stradanus), this is first state. See comments to 1957,0413.178.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (564.I) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (692.24)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1957
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1957,0413.193

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