The Cobbler's Unruly Family

1559

Peter van der Borcht

Artist, Flemish, 1545 - 1608

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.4 x 43.1 cm (12 3/8 x 16 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.2 x 43.9 cm (12 11/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.71.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 178, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of PF (Lugt undesc.); Fürstlich Waldburg Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2542); (Helmut Rumbler, Frankfurt); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1967

  • Oberhuber, Konrad. Die Kunst der Graphik IV. Zwischen Renaissance und Barock.... Exh. Cat. Vienna, 1967-1968, no. 75.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Peeter van der Borcht, Hans Mielke and Ursula Mielke, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 178, state only.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Bartholomaeus de Mompere Excudebat / 1559; extensive inscription below image

Wikidata ID

Q75394709

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