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Object Type
Museum number: F,1.24
Title: Object: Aestas; Series: The Four Seasons
Description: Plate 2: Summer. Several peasants harvesting wheat, one figure drinking from a large jug and his leg and sickle extend beyond the frame of image into lower margin, a village and church at left middleground, and fields of hay extending back into distance on right; first state before numbering; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1570 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pieter van der Heyden; After: Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1570
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 222 millimetres; Width: 283 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one of a series of four, for comment see 1948,0410.4.218. A preparatory drawing for this print in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, is signed and dated 1568. The Latin verse to the right is taken from an epigram by Julian; see Ilya Veldeman, 'Seasons, planets and temperaments in the work of Maarten van Heemskerck; cosmo-astrological allegory in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints,' in Simiolus 11, no. 3/4 (1980), pp. 159-60.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (30.I) (Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Bastelaer 1908 / Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien (202); Lebeer 1969 / Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien (78.I); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (202.I) (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (49)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1999 July-Sep, London, National Gallery, 'Wertinger's Summer'
Subjects: time/seasons; harvesting/haymaking
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: F,1.24

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