Nicolaes de BRUYN
A stag and dog with monkeys riding on a camel and a bull
1594
plate 4 from the Fighting chimeras and scenes to Aesop's Fables suite 1594

Medium
engraving

Measurements
3.0 × 5.8 cm (image) 3.2 × 5.8 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark) 6.8 × 12.4 cm (support)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 224; Le Blanc 118; Hollstein IV.256-267 (N. de Bruyn); Wurzbach 71

Edition
only state

Printing/Publishing
published by Ahasuerus van Londerseel, Amsterdam

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.r.: NB (monogram) (in a square)
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: 1594
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: 4

Accession Number
1278.184-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Animals

Subjects (specific)
boar (species) bulls (animals) camel (mammal) deer dog (species) monkeys (animals) riding (travelling) stags