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Hans Sebald Beham

Dance of the Peasants

Description

Maker

After Hans Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550), woodcutter
Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, 1561-1623), engraver (printmaker)

Title

Dance of the Peasants

Year

1576-1623

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

engraving

Supports

Dimensions

4.8 x 26.4 cm (1 7/8 x 10 3/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:inscribed in pencil in LL:W255 G.W./N. - ; titled along bottom left of center:Tanz der Bavern (illegible) 9.IN Plate--Signed in LL: 'de Bry fe'; inscribed along bottom: 'Qúan túm aúlaà Caúla: tantúm quoq[ue] distat agresti // Aulicus: hoc presens te laxa Chorea docebit. // Sed bene, sic variae liqúeant discrimina vitae.'

Marks: Stamped in black ink on verso:R.I.S.D./MUSEUM/OF ARTsurrounded byPROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle.

Identification

Standard Reference Number

Hollstein 17-21

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

47.663

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Keyboard and Strings
Early Instruments and Performers
Mar 07, 1951 – Apr 15, 1951

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Tombstone

After Hans Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550), woodcutter
Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, 1561-1623), engraver (printmaker)
Dance of the Peasants, 1576-1623
engraving
4.8 x 26.4 cm (1 7/8 x 10 3/8 inches) (plate)
Museum Works of Art Fund 47.663

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