(Antwerp 1522 – 1562)

Three warships in a storm

Engraving, state I of II, 24.1 x 19.3 cm,
Signed in the plate lower left: f.h. bruegel and in the margin lower right: Cum.privileg                                                   

Published by Hieronymus Cock (Hollstein III, p. 265 no. 105)

Literature: Muller 418 As(6). Van Bastelaer 105. De Ramaix, Lebeer 48; F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings Engravings and Woodcuts -.c. 1450-1700, Volume III, no. 105, pp. 262-264, with fig. (second state); Irene de Groot and Robert Vorstman, Sail Ships – Prints by the Dutch Masters from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Published in collaboration with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, Maarssen 1980,No. 4, depicting second state; exhibit. cat. The kingdom of Neptune – Maritime prints around the Golden Age, Maritime Museum ‘Prins Hendrick’ Rotterdam 21.12.96-31.03.97, no. 4, p.16.