The Stone Operation or The Witch of Mallegem

Prints and Drawings

1559

Pieter van der Heyden (Flemish, c. 1530–after 1584)
after Pieter Bruegel, the elder (Flemish, 1525/30-1569)
published by Hieronymous Cock (Flemish c. 1510–1570)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pieter van der Heyden
Title: The Stone Operation or The Witch of Mallegem
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1559
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right, below image, in pen and brown ink: "H. COCK. EXEV"
Dimensions: Image/plate/sheet: 33 × 46.8 cm (13 × 18 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
Reference Number: 2015.5
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Possibly Gaston de Ramaix [stamp (Lugt 4099) verso, lower right in purple ink]. Valentin Weisbach (1843–1899), Berlin [stamp (Lugt 2539b) verso lower right in black ink]. Sold by Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA., to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

New Hollstein 38 I/V (possible trial proof)

Bastelaer 193

Hollstein 193 (after Bruegel)

Lebeer 28

Hollstein 59 (Heyden)

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