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Hans Sebald Beham

Dance of the Peasants,

Maker

  • Hans Sebald Beham
  • Johann Theodor de Bry

Title

Dance of the Peasants

Medium

engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Techniques

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

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

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

47.663

Dance of the Peasants

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.

Hollstein 17-21

Exhibition History

Keyboard and Strings

March 7 - April 15, 1951
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