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Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and others

Sloth

1557

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Sloth

1557

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 230 × 297 mm. (9 1/16 × 11 11/16 in.) Image: 224 × 292 mm. (8 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 2000.92
Hill-Stone, Inc., New York
BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.
Susan Dackerman, "A Collector for All of Us." Newsletter of The Print & Drawing Society of The Baltimore Museum of Art (Fall 2004), illus. p. 6.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: In pl., LwrC in image: 'DESIDIA' & 'P/AME'; BL in image: 'brueghel inuentor'; BR in image: 'H. Cock. excud. cum. priuileg. 1558.'; BC below image: 'SEGNITIES [...] en doocht'. VERSO: BLC (graphite): '150-68'; BL (graphite): 'E[??]y Van [Bod?]'.

Markings: none - partial & illegible

Artist

Pieter van der Heyden

2000–2000

Flemish, c. 1530-c. 1575
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Artist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1524–1568

Flemish, c. 1525 - 1569
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