Owl on Back of Donkey, Bird on Back of Camel with Other Animals

1594

Nicolaes de Bruyn

Artist, Flemish, 1565/1571 - 1656

Nicolaes de Bruyn

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 2.9 × 5.6 cm (1 1/8 × 2 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.45.249

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 225, State only


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.

2014

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Nicolaes de Bruyn. Compiled by Lorena A. Baines and edited by Nadine M. Orenstein. Ouderkerk aan den Ijssell: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2014, no. 225..

Inscriptions

bottom center, in plate: N 1594; lower right, in plate: 5; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [indecipherable] 27242; verso, lower right, in graphite: B-32,242

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65575789


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