The Plague of Frogs, c.1585

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20 × 28.6 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

sheet: 20.9 × 29.4 cm (8 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Hack

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 56

Accession Number

2012.91.4

Artists / Makers

Jan Sadeler I (artist) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Maarten van Cleef (artist after) Flemish, c. 1527 - 1581

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: Haeyler; in plate, along lower edge: Ranarum, Ciniphum, muscarum hinditur agmen; Et terra natis corpoibuque nocent. Exod: 8; 4; by later hand, verso in graphite: Le [not deciphered] des grenouilles, des abeilles(?) des mouches et ven [not deciphered] aux hommes

Provenance

Charles Hack, New York; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hack, Charles

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: no. 56