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Die großen Fische fressen die kleinen

Artwork · Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1557 · print · Albertina

The engraving after Bruegel’s drawing of 1556, published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp in 1557, in its first state. It names Hieronymus Bosch as its inventor — “Hieronymus.Bos. / inuentor” lower left, “COCK . EXCV . 1557” lower right; under the Latin verse "GRANDIBVS EXIGVI SVNT PISCES PISCIBVS ESCA"1. Albertina, Sammlungen Online, DG1955/116. ↩ Literatur Albertina, Sammlungen Online: Sammlungen Online, in: Albertina, Wien, https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at.