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Object Type
Museum number: R,4.16
Description: St Augustine at the Seashore; St Augustine at left wearing his episcopal robes and the mitre with his crook; the saint stretches his arm towards a boy who is scooping water with his shell, trying to transfer the waters of the sea into a small hole in the sand; after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Alexander Voet II; Published by: Alexander Voet II
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Production date: 1655-1695
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
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Dimensions: Height: 479 millimetres; Width: 363 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For another impression see 1917,1208.547. With variations after the painting by Rubens in the Narodni Galerie, Prague, inv.no.483 (Rooses 392); formerly in the St Thomas Church also in Prague.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (96.11); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (7.I) (under Voet); Corpus Rubenianum VIII / Saints (67) (engraving undescribed)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1769
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,4.16

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