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Image

Flemish

The Crafty Bird-Catcher, ca. 1555/1556

Description

Maker

  • Unknown
  • Hieronymous Cock, ca. 1510-1570, Netherlandish, publisher
  • After Pieter Bruegel I, b. 1525-1530, d. 1569, Flemish

Culture

Flemish

Title

The Crafty Bird-Catcher

Year

ca. 1555/1556

Medium

Etching on light weight cream laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 32.4 x 42.9 cm (12 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso:in pencil, LL:Nov 1900-gg·gl; bottom edge, left of center:de B.10; right of cener, bottom edge:DRIn Plate--In LR:BRVEGHEL INVE/ h. cock excudeb.; titled, LC:INSIDIOSVS AVCEPS

Identification

State

only state

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Miss Ellen D. Sharpe

Object Number

52.219

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Crafty Bird-Catcher with the accession number of 52.219. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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