The Fitzwilliam Museum - Autumn - Bacchus, by Maarten de Vos

An image of Autumn - Bacchus. Vos, Maarten de (Flemish, 1532-1603). Pen, bistre ink and wash, heightened with white, partly oxidised, on paper, height 203 mm, width 270 mm. Production Note: see no. 3708; one of a series of four representing the seasons. Engraved: by Adriaen Collaert (1560-1618); see Hollstein, Vol. IV, p. 204, no. 459; engraving marked at top: "Autumnus Baccho S.".

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Autumn - Bacchus. Vos, Maarten de (Flemish, 1532-1603). Pen, bistre ink and wash, heightened with white, partly oxidised, on paper, height 203 mm, width 270 mm. Production Note: see no. 3708; one of a series of four representing the seasons. Engraved: by Adriaen Collaert (1560-1618); see Hollstein, Vol. IV, p. 204, no. 459; engraving marked at top: "Autumnus Baccho S.".

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Accession Number: 3710
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 764 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 174.06kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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16th Century allegorical allegory animal animals astrological astrology Autumn autumnal Bacchic Bacchus bunch of grapes cattle cornucopia cornucopiae cows Dionysos Dionysus drawing Fall Fitz_PDP Flemish food food and drink four seasons fruits grapes Maarten de Vos male nude mythological mythology Northern Renaissance nude peasants plenty plough ploughing plow Renaissance seasonal seasons signs of the zodiac vegetables zodiac

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