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Object Type: print
Museum number: R,5.37
Title: Series: Small landscapes
Description: Landscape with a draw-well; a farmer with two horses in lower left, a large farmstead with a tower on a hill in left background; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1638 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert; After: Peter Paul Rubens
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1638
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 295 millimetres; Width: 425 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twenty, for comment see R,5.21. For another impression of this plate see also 1891,0414.1281. This print is the only one in the series by Bolswert after Rubens' landscapes to bear a date. After the painting by Rubens in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv.no.1816. For a copy in reverse see 1939,0130.1.86 and 1891,0414.1283.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (316); Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (234.53.12); Corpus Rubenianum XVIII.I / Landscapes and Hunting Scenes; I. Landscapes (69) (copy 2)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1996/7 Oct-Jan, London, NG, Rubens' Landscapes
Subjects: well; farm building/farmyard
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (print laid down but mount stamped as Cracherode bequest)
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,5.37

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