De Haen, Willem Lot n° 559

DE HAEN, Willem (after) Fames [Famine during the Siege of Leiden]. 1614 Engraving, 14,8 x 22,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (trimmed on the platemark). Bruegelian composition with starving men and women eating rats and dogs during the famine in Leiden. Print from the series "Leiden tijdens het beleg en ontzet van 1574", Leiden, 1614. A smaller state of a print first used as an illustration in J.J. Orlers's "Beschrijvinge der stad Leyden" (Leiden, 1614). Ref. Atlas van Stolk 537. - Rijksmuseum RP-P-AO-10-16A-1. Prov. A. van Loock, Brussels art dealer (coll. stamp on verso, Lugt 3751).