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Three dogs fighting over a dead animal The set of dogs
Printmaker: Hillegaert, Paulus van
Three dogs in a landscape; a tree at the far right beneath which a dog is eating a dead animal. A second dog, its paw on the kill, looks towards the left at a third dog leaping towards them ready to fight for its share.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
17th Century#
Production date:
AD 1654
Before the number 7
Accession number: 31.K.12-77
Primary reference Number: 32478
Bartsch: 7
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 7 II
Stable URI
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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