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Pieter Bruegel I

River Landscape With Mercury Abducting Psyche,

Description

Maker

  • Houfnaegel
  • Pieter Bruegel I

Title

River Landscape With Mercury Abducting Psyche

Medium

etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Etching on light weight cream laid paper

Techniques

  • Etching on light weight cream laid paper

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 27.6 x 34.6 cm (10 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso in pencil in LL:1505/75; in brown ink in center of left edge:mon/135 45In plate--In LC:ARTI ET INGENIO STAT SINE MORTE DECVS.; in LC on bottom:Petrus Breughel fec:Romae A°: 1553-/Excud

Identification

State

1st of 2

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.1032

About

River Landscape With Mercury Abducting Psyche

Verso in pencil in LL:1505/75; in brown ink in center of left edge:mon/135 45In plate--In LC:ARTI ET INGENIO STAT SINE MORTE DECVS.; in LC on bottom:Petrus Breughel fec:Romae A°: 1553-/Excud

1st of 2

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is River Landscape With Mercury Abducting Psyche with the accession number of 84.198.1032. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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