Patientia (Patience)
© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Artist
Pieter van der Heyden

(engraver)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(designer)

Hieronymus Cock

(publisher)

Production date
1557
Collection
Ashmolean
Object number
WA1863.8682
Material

Engraving; two states known

Inscription
Signed at lower right: Brueghel · Invent ·; at lower left: H · Cock · excude · 1557· Signed at lower right: PVAHE [in monogram]; inscribed at lower centre: PATIENTIA ·; in the margin: PATIENTIA EST MALORUM QUAE AUT INFERUNTUR, AUT ACCIDUNT, CUM AEQUANIMITATE PERLATIO · Lact · Inst · Lib · 5 · [Patience is the tranquil endurance of evils that assail you or happen to you. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones. Book 5]
Dimensions
43.4 cm x 34 cm
Keywords
Allegories
Cityscapes
References
http://collections.ashmolean.org/object/838400

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Patientia (Patience)
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