Battle in the Straits of Messina

Artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(designer)
Frans Huys
(engraver)
Cornelis Van Dalem
(publisher)
Hieronymus Cock
(publisher)
Production date
1561
Collection
Object number
FRBNF44420022
Material
Engraving and etching, printed from two copper plates; five states known
Inscription
Signed at lower right: BRUEGEL INVENTOR (first state only); at lower left: ·F· HVIIS· FECIT·; in letterprint, above or beneath the illustration: CORNELIUS A DALEM ECUDEBAT, ANNO.X.D.LXI.CUM PRIVILEGIO (first state only); in a cartouche at lower right: Hieronymus Cock pictor excudebat, M.D. lxi/ Cum Gratia et privilegio./ Bruegel Inven. (second and subsequent states); inscribed in the upper margin: FRETI SICULI SIVE MAMERTINI VULGO EL FARO DI MESSINA OPTICA DELINEATIO [View of the Straits of Sicily or Messina, known in the vernacular as the Lighthouse of Messina] (second and subsequent states); above the mountains on the right: MESSINA (second and subsequent states); above the mountains on the left: REZE (second and subsequent states); in a cartouche at lower right: Trinacriae insignes portum ..... factum'que barathrum. (eight lines, second and subsequent states)
Dimensions
71.7 cm x 43.4 cm
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