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Object Type: print
Museum number: R,5.9
Description: The Boar Hunt; a wild boar at centre, being attacked with spears by huntsmen and dogs, three wounded dogs in lower left, a man and two ladies onlooking in left background; first state before publisher's address; after Peter Paul Rubens. c.1623-24 Etching
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Willem de Leeuw
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1623-1624 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 461 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 646 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For a duplicate see 2006,U.3870; After the painting by Rubens in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, inv.no.103.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (228.31.8); Corpus Rubenianum XVIII.II / Landscapes and Hunting Scenes; II. Hunting Scenes (4) (copy 14); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (10.I) (under Leeuw)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: hunting/shooting; dog
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (washed and with late Cracherode stamp)
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,5.9

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