print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.4292
- Title
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Object: Superbia
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Series: The Seven Vices
- Description
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Plate 1: Pride; an old woman seated before a mirror on a table, three-quarter length in profile to right; proof before lettering; after Adriaen Brouwer
Engraving
- Production date
- 1622-1628
- Dimensions
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Height: 193 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of seven plates after Adriaen Brouwer showing the seven vices by Lucas Vorsterman I (Hollstein 117-123). For complete sets see S.4287-4292; S.6268; S.6274-6275 and 1857,0613.347-352. This impression is proof before lettering for an impression of lettered state see S.6275 and 1857,0613.349.
After the painting by Brouwer in Berlin.
For three anonymous copies in mezzotint, see also S.6256-6257 and 6277
- 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.4292
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.4292