File:Bruegel, Pieter I after - A fool trying to hatch an empty egg.jpg
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anonymous: A fool trying to hatch an empty egg
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A fool trying to hatch an empty egg |
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English: drinking from a glass, a fool's bauble seen through the hole of the egg |
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| Date | 1569 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | pen and brown India ink on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 175 × 179 cm (68.8 × 70.4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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T,15.69 |
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| Object history | 1753-1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Date and signature: lower centre, in pen and brown ink: "1569". Inscribed in pencil, in lower right corner, in a later hand: "P. Brugel |
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English: Copy after the engraving by Hieronymus Wierix in the Twelve Flemish Proverbs |
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| Source/Photographer | British Museum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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