File:Big Fish Eat Little Fish 1557.jpg

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Medium engraving; first state of four
Dimensions height: 22.9 cm (9 in); width: 29.7 cm (11.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,22.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,29.7U174728
(plate)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
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Accession number
28.4(22)
Credit line Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Inscriptions
English: Flemish inscription below, which translates: "Look son, I have long known that the big fish eat the small. This engraving is signed in the lower left corner with the name Hieronymus Bosch, who had died in 1516. The print's publisher, Hieronymus Cock, was probably responsible for replacing Bruegel's name with that of the more famous and salable Bosch, who had, not coincidentally, a major influence on Bruegel.
Notes
English: is among the first of the artist's many treatments of proverbs in paintings or prints
(drawing 1556)
Source/Photographer Image courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other versions
Deutsch: 1557, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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