After the Shipwreck, c. 1595

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 237, State i/ii

Accession Number

1964.8.468

Artists / Makers

Simon Novellanus (artist) German, active c. 1560/1590

Cornelis Cort (artist after) Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Joris Hoefnagel (publisher) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

in margin below image, in plate: Nonne ille est mortis stipendiarius, qui morete quaerit unde vivat? // O mortale lutum et ventis obiecta lucerna, / I nunc et ventis animam committe, dolato // Confisus ligno, digitis a morte remotis / Quatuor, aut septem si sit latissima taeda. // Cornelius Cort Battavus fec: / excud: Hoef: cum prae: Caes:

Exhibition History

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Cornelis Cort, Manfred Sellink author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 237, state i/ii.

1996: Serebrennikov, Nina Eugenia. "Imitating Nature / Imitiating Bruegel," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 47, 1996, pp. 223-246.