Original nineteenth-century steel engraving, "Rubens' Chateau", engraved by E. J. Havell after the landscape by Peter Paul Rubens and published in London by George Virtue. It shows Het Steen, the country house the painter bought in 1635 at Elewijt, between Brussels and Mechelen, with a cart and a huntsman in the foreground.
Original nineteenth-century steel engraving, "Rubens' Chateau", engraved by E. J. Havell after the landscape by Peter Paul Rubens and published in London by George Virtue. It shows Het Steen, the country house the painter bought in 1635 at Elewijt, between Brussels and Mechelen, with a cart and a huntsman in the foreground.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), original composition
Engraver: E. J. Havell
Source: Published in London by George Virtue
Dimensions: Sheet 10.6 x 8.0 in (27 x 20.3 cm)
Condition: Repaired cut in the right-hand margin, visible against the light and outside the image; otherwise good, with wide margins and clean paper.