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Fleet of Galleys Escorted by a Caravel (one of 10 plates from The Sailing Vessels seriess)
about 1561–62
Engraved by Frans Huys (Netherlandish, 1522–1562), After Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569), Published by Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 107 (I); Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. III, Bruegel) 107; Orenstein (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Breugel) 71 (I/II)
Dimensions
Platemark: 22.4 x 29 cm (8 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.) Sheet: 25.2 x 32.9 cm (9 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
Accession Number
30.1077
Medium or Technique
Engraving and etching
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
First state
Inscription
Inscribed in plate, within image, lower right: breugel [sic]; in margin, lower right: Cum.priuileg
Signed
Signed in plate, lower left: . F . H .
Markings
Watermark [not identified]; verso, MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 31998; in graphite: c.19786; 26; 107; Van Bast. 107 I; in ink: [?]
Provenance
1930, purchased from a C.G. Boerner sale of May, 1930 (lot 168) by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1930)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund