A village in Flanders: houses by a river, with people, horses and waggons. Etching by W.W. Ryland, 1764, after J. Brueghel the elder.

  • Bruegel, Jan, 1568-1625.
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[1764]
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2476782i
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Description

The village is as bleak as described in Ovid's verse, with flat terrain, with no trees or vegetation, and unprotected from the wind along the river

Publication/Creation

[London] : Ap.d C.R Edit.m, [1764]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with plate tone, printed in brown ; image and lettering 23.5 x 28.4 cm

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Lettering

Adde loci faciem nec fronde nec arbore tecti. Jan Breugel del.t ; W.W. Ryland sc.t 1764 "Adde loci faciem nec fronde nec arbore tecti": add the appearance of a place covered by neither leaf nor tree (Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, 1.2.23, complaining about the bleakness of his place of exile on the Black Sea)

References note

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 49, no. 553 ("Dorfansicht mit Staffage, im Vorgrunde ein gesatteltes Pferd mit Führer. Feder and Bister. Rogers' Sammiung. W. W. Ryland sc. Br. 10" 5''', H. 6" 2'". Rogers, Collection 100")
A. Griffiths, 'The Rogers collection in the Cottonian Library Plymouth', Print quarterly, vol. 10, 1993, pp. 19-36

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Wellcome Collection 2476782i

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