print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.5612
- Description
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A riotous assembly of soldiers outside an inn; a soldier (the commander?) sits at a table and holds up a goblet; behind a man threatens a peasant with the butt of his halberd; another soldier fires his rifle at some birds perched in the tree overhead; after Peter Paul Rubens
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1640-1650
- Dimensions
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Height: 248 millimetres
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Width: 355 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A related drawing is in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv.no.2535. See Hollstein for discussion of related painting(s) and oil sketch.
For another impression of this plate see also R,4.93. For a counterproof see S.5613.
- 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.5612
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.5612