- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M8598
- People
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Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)
- Title
- Hope
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The Seven Cardinal Virtues
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1559
- Culture
- Flemish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/257335
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- 22.4 x 29.1 cm (8 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- (not assigned): inscription: lower left, in plate: BRVGEL INV
- (not assigned): inscription: lower center, in plate: SPEC
- (not assigned): inscription: lower right, in plate: H. cock excu.
- (not assigned): inscription: lower center, in plate: IVCVNDISSIMA EST SPEI PERSVASIO, ET VITAE IMPRIMIS / NECESSARIA, INTER TOT AERVMNAS PENEQ INTOLERABILES
- (not assigned): inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Van Bast 133
- (not assigned): inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 8598
- (not assigned): inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: LB.2927
- (not assigned): inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: /OZ
- Provenance
- Charles Bain Hoyt, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1937
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- i/i
- Standard Reference Number
- Bastelaer no. 133; Hollstein 133; New Hollstein 14; Lebeer no. 32
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
- Accession Year
- 1937
- Object Number
- M8598
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986
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