Avaritia (Avarice), from the set of Seven Vices
Pieter van der Heyden, Dutch, 1530 - 1575
after Pieter Bruegel, the elder, Netherlandish, 1520 - 1569
1558
Engraving on laid paper
Impression: 8 15/16 × 11 11/16 in. (22.7 × 29.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
PR.968.54
Publisher
Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: P. brueghel Inventor; Cock excud cum privileg 1558; monogram PAVE; inscribed, in plate, across bottom: Qvis metvx, avt pvdor est vnqvam Prperantis Avari [Dutch translation below]
Exhibition History
15th and 16th Century Plates from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 14-December 4, 1977.
Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Northern Prints and Drawings, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, February 15-March 20, 1983.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Provenance
Zeitlin ver Brugge, Los Angeles, California; sold to present collection, 1968.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein 128
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