The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish
published 1557
Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 21.1 x 29.7 cm (8 5/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1980.45.222
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 31, State i/iv
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
2000
The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
2005
"Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image 1470-2005", The AXA Gallery, New York, 2005-2006.
Bibliography
1908
Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.
1969
Lebeer, Louis. Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels, 1969, 58-59.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 31, state i/iv.
Inscriptions
lower left, in image, in plate: Hieronijmus.Bos. / inuentor; lower center, in image, in plate: ECCE; lower right, in image, in plate: COCK. EXCV. 1557.
Wikidata ID
Q65576272