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Object Type
print
Museum number
R,5.45
Title
Series:
Small landscapes
Description
Landscape with a piping shepherd and his flock before a stream at sunset (Brabant plain); to the left is a small castle with a stepped gable and a tower surmounted by an onion spire; 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
Flemish
Production date
1638
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
320 millimetres
Width:
458 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 National Gallery, London, inv.no.157.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(322.IV)
Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens
(235.53.18)
Corpus Rubenianum XVIII.I / Landscapes and Hunting Scenes; I. Landscapes
(68)
(copy 2)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
herder
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(laid down but the mount stamped as Cracherode)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
R,5.45