print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.3968
- Title
- Series: Animalia (Animals)
- Description
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Two sheep, one pissing seen from the back to the right, another one seen from the back in the left background; unfinished in many parts; from a series of eight plates showing sheep
Etching
- Production date
- 1635-1683
- Dimensions
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Height: 100 millimetres (cut to plate-mark)
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Width: 112 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Although this print does not bear the artist's name, it was probably made by Berchem since other prints from this series show his name. This is first state which is unfinished in many parts, for other states see S.3969-3971.
A drawn copy is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv.no.CAI.557; see J. Shoaf Turner and C. White, 'Dutch & Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', London, 2014, cat.no.18.
For comment on this series, see S.3948
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.3968
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.3968
