Winter, from The Four Seasons

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pieter van der Heyden

Title

Winter, from The Four Seasons

Place

Flanders (Artist's nationality:)

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1570

Medium

Engraving with etching in black on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Printed in plate, in image, lower center: "H. Cock excud. 1570"; in plate, in image, lower right: "H. Bol"; in plate, below image, lower center: "Hyems/ Senectuti comparatur"; in plate, below image, lower left and right: "Brumales, Ianus ... alligat undas."; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "L18"

Dimensions

Image: 21 × 28.7 cm (8 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Plate: 22.7 × 28.7 cm (8 15/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 28.3 × 38 cm (11 3/16 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

Reference Number

2016.141.4

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