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Sixteen Boats of Different Structure

Frans Huys, Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Artist Hieronymus Cock, Publisher
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Sixteen Boats of Different Structure

ca. 1565

Frans Huys (Artist) Netherlandish, 1522-1562 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Artist) Netherlandish, 1525-1569 Hieronymus Cock (Publisher) Netherlandish, 1517 or 1518-1570

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Plate: 8 3/4 × 11 7/8 inches (22.2 × 30.2 cm) Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 7/8 inches (24.8 × 32.7 cm)

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Gift of Albert Kahn

40.10

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Signed, in plate, lower center of image: H. Cock

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1940-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA 21, 1: pp. 5-7 (ill.).

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 12.

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Frans Huys; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sixteen Boats of Different Structure, ca. 1565, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Albert Kahn, 40.10.

Sixteen Boats of Different Structure
Sixteen Boats of Different Structure