Cattle drinking

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Paul Bril Netherlandish
Publisher Adam Alexius Bierling Netherlandish
1650
Not on view
after Paul Bril
Pastoral landscape with a shepherd driving his cattle down a road to a river at left, some deer and goats on the other river-bank at right.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Cattle drinking
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Paul Bril (Netherlandish, Breda (?) 1553/54–1626 Rome)
  • Publisher: Adam Alexius Bierling (Netherlandish, 1625–1675)
  • Date: 1650
  • Medium: Etching; only state
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 7 in. × 8 7/8 in. (17.8 × 22.6 cm)
    cut within the platemark
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.2.166
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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