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Object Type: print
Museum number: Ii,5.26
Description: Envy. Landscape with Cupid, Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury at centre, Janus beyond, Envy with donkey's ears and other figures (e.g. Abundantia) standing around a table with die at left, two snakes in lower left corner, a bow and a trident in the foreground, Charity suckling a child in lower right corner; after Coxcie. Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Bos; After: Michiel Coxie I (annotation in pencil on verso)
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1530-1556
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 278 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 388 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For another impression see 1951,0407.126. This print is heavily damaged and laid on another sheet of paper.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (67); Schéle 1965 / Cornelis Bos: A study of the origins of the Netherland grotesque (58)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; virtues and vices; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Eros/Cupid; Representation of: Poseidon/Neptune; Representation of: Zeus/Jupiter (as an eagle); Representation of: Hermes/Mercury; Representation of: Janus; Representation of: Abundantia
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials HS)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Ii,5.26

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