Lot and His Daughters, c.1600

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 42.2 × 45.7 cm (16 5/8 × 18 in.)

sheet: 44.5 × 48.8 cm (17 1/2 × 19 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 64, State iv/iv

Accession Number

2012.92.578

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Carel Allard (publisher) Dutch, 1648 - 1709

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: Harmannus Muller. excud. / Amsterodamij.; in image, at centre: Carel Allard Excudit; in image, at right: Joannes Muller. fecit.; below image: Dùm flammâ patriam cernunt cecidisse voraci, / Extinctumque putant omne virile genus: / Largius en solito siffundunt pocla parenti / Lothiades, fallant quo simul arte senem. / Ô laudanda magis quàm condemnada voluptas, / Quae petit amplexus, prolis amore, pios!

Provenance

Lyn Mildé (Lugt 4520). (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 30, 1989; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.

Exhibition History

2013: Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 10, iii/iv

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 64, iv/iv