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Shrove Tuesday
Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, about 1530–after March 1572)
In the manner of: Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, active by 1480, died in 1516)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
In the manner of: Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, active by 1480, died in 1516)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1567
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
22.54 x 28.89 cm (8 7/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession Number1981.89
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. III, after Bosch), 025, i / iv; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IV, Cock) 138; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IX, Van der Heyden) 48, i / iv
Signed
Signed in plate, on box, upper center: P/.AME. [monogram]
Marks
Watermark: hand and flower
InscriptionsIn plate, at upper left: Hiero . Bos . Inuentor .
In plate, at lower left: H. Cock . excudebat . 1567 .
In plate, at lower left: Malquers entrez, laisses ce gras grouleur / Bien soies venu a nostre ducasse/chantes, iouez, la vielle de bon coeur / nous faict les gauffres allez bien grasse' / buuons de ces te maluoisi garbe / ce pendant quau sot on faict la barbe /
In plate, at lower right: Pÿpt nou brÿ oppe . en speelt van hertten fier / backt wafelen / en struÿuen / om wel te smeeren / tis non al keremisse / sÿt nou brolÿck hier / dus brengf malcanderen eens van den Rynschen cleeren / en wÿlt nou wt ghenuchten de sot wel scheeren
In plate, at lower left: H. Cock . excudebat . 1567 .
In plate, at lower left: Malquers entrez, laisses ce gras grouleur / Bien soies venu a nostre ducasse/chantes, iouez, la vielle de bon coeur / nous faict les gauffres allez bien grasse' / buuons de ces te maluoisi garbe / ce pendant quau sot on faict la barbe /
In plate, at lower right: Pÿpt nou brÿ oppe . en speelt van hertten fier / backt wafelen / en struÿuen / om wel te smeeren / tis non al keremisse / sÿt nou brolÿck hier / dus brengf malcanderen eens van den Rynschen cleeren / en wÿlt nou wt ghenuchten de sot wel scheeren
Provenance1981, sold by Robert M. Light & Co. (Light: b. 1929 - d. 2016), Boston and Santa Barbara, California, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 15, 1981)