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Object Type
print
Museum number
E,4.129
Description
A peasant couple selling their produce; reverse copy after Dürer (Meder 89); the female figure at right holding a chicken; an egg basket on the ground at r. 1577 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Pieter Maes
After:
Albrecht Dürer
School/style
German
Production date
1577
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
112 millimetres
(Plate-mark)
Width:
73 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See also Maes's copy of Dürer's The Cook and his Wife (Meder 84) of the same year (BM E,4.147).
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(27)
Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog
(89)
(Copy after)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(IX.570.18)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
peasant/villager
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
(according to Carpenter's annotation in Ottley's 1837 inventory)
Acquisition date
1753
(before)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
E,4.129