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Object Type
Museum number: R,5.23
Title: Series: Small landscapes
Description: Landscape with windmill and bird-trap; a large net has been installed tied to the branches of trees at right; a man sits beneath the net and holds a rope connected to the trap, two men saw a felled tree trunk in central foreground, three figures relaxing in lower right, a windmill in left background; after Peter Paul Rubens. c.1638 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert; After: Peter Paul Rubens; Published by: Gillis Hendricx
School/style
Production date: 1638 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 325 millimetres; Width: 460 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twenty, for comment see R,5.21. After the painting by Rubens in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv.no.2117.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (307.IV); Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (232.53.3); Corpus Rubenianum XVIII.I / Landscapes and Hunting Scenes; I. Landscapes (67) (copy 1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,5.23

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