Big Fish Eat Little Fish

Artist:: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels)

Artist:: Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, ca. 1525–1569)

Publisher:: Joannes Galle I (Flemish, Antwerp 1600–1676 Antwerp)

Date:: 1557

Medium:: Engraving; fourth state of four

Dimensions:: Plate: 9 1/16 × 11 13/16 in. (23 × 30 cm) Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 7/8 in. (24.2 × 30.1 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Accession Number:: 53.601.14(58)

Not on view

Duke of Northumberland; Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz and Vienna; Vendor: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

Van Bastelaer 139.iv; NH(Bruegel) 68.31.iv

Réné van Bastelaer Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. G. van Oest, Brussels, 1908, cat. no. 139 iv.

F. W. H. Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. 2008, cat. no. Brueghel, 68.31 iv.

Timelines
Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.

Department

Drawings and Prints (154,082)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (135)

Joannes Galle I (8)

Pieter van der Heyden (47)

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

A.D. 1400–1600 (26,347)

Festival of Fools

Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels) Date: after 1570 Medium: Engraving; second state of three Accession: 2013.452 On view in:Not on view

Soldiers at Rest (Milites Requiescentes) from The Large Landscapes

Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels) Date: ca. 1555–56 Medium: Etching and engraving Accession: 26.72.56 On view in:Not on view

Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) from The Large Landscapes

Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels) Date: ca. 1555–56 Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three Accession: 26.72.55 On view in:Not on view

The Kermis at Hoboken

Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels) Date: ca. 1559 Medium: Engraving; second state of four Accession: 26.72.27 On view in:Not on view

Skating before the St. George's Gate, Antwerp

Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels) Date: ca. 1558 Medium: Engraving; first state of two Accession: 26.72.24 On view in:Not on view