Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymous Cock
Sloth
1557
Scroll
Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymous Cock
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
Publication References
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.
Hill-Stone, Inc., New York
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam: Menno Hertberger, 1949-, vol. 3 (Brueghel) p. 277 no. 126 ill. Hollstein vol. 9 (van der Heyden) p. 28 no. 31. Riggs, Timothy A., Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977, p. 321 no. 39.
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