Hendrik Hondius I

Dutch, 1573 - 1649 or after

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Hendrik Hondius I, Epileptics Walking to the Left, 1642, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Hope and Julian Edison, 2019.114.6

Epileptics Walking to the Left

Hendrik Hondius I · 1642 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2019.114.6

Hendrik Hondius I, Frederik de Wit, Epileptics Walking to the Right, 1642, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1964.8.434

Epileptics Walking to the Right

Hendrik Hondius I, Frederik de Wit · 1642 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1964.8.434

Hendrik Hondius I, Two Bagpipe Players, 1642, engraving, Gift of W.G. Russell Allen, 1941.1.151

Two Bagpipe Players

Hendrik Hondius I · 1642 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1941.1.151

Hendrik Hondius I, Charles I, 1626, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.14.281

Charles I

Hendrik Hondius I · 1626 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1950.14.281

Printed with fine black lines on light tan paper, a whale-sized fish spilling smaller fish from its gaping mouth and a gash in its belly fills a beach in this horizontal engraving. The fish lies on its side with its belly facing us, and one bulging eye peers off to our left. A man wearing a helmet holds a knife twice his own size with the blade up as he cuts the fish’s belly. Fish and scallop shells of all sizes tumble from its cavernous mouth and side. Several fish also have smaller fish in their mouths. On the far side of the fish, a man stands on a ladder braced against the enormous creature, holding a raised trident as he looks down, his face covered by the wide brim of his hat. On the land to our right is another smaller fish with human legs, which carries a fish in its mouth. It passes a man who carries a fish on his back outside a dilapidated cottage as he climbs a ladder leaning against a tree. Two other fish hang from the tree’s branches. Around the shoreline to the left, fish surface with more fish in their mouths. A man and a boy wearing tunics and long headdresses sit in a rowboat close to us, pointing as a second man in the boat holds a knife in his teeth and pulls a small fish from the body of a larger one. The word “ECCE” is inscribe near the pointing man’s hand. Another man sits on the beach further up the shoreline, about to catch a fish using fish as bait. The water stretches back to a town in the far distance. Boats float in the middle distance and some approach another whale-sized fish beached on a small island behind a tall rocky outcropping. About a dozen people with spears gather on the island around that fish. A flock of birds fly in silhouette in the distance beyond the island. A flying creature closer to us has a scaly body, gaping mouth, wavy tail, and teardrop-shaped wings. An inscription in the upper left corner reads, “Grandibus exigui sunt pisces piscibus esca.” The print is signed in the lower left corner, “CJVisscher excud,” with the CJV joined to make a monogram. An inscription printed in the margin under the image reads, “Siet sone dit heb’ick seer lange gheweten Dat die groote Vissen de cleyne eten. P. Breugel inven:.”
Hendrik Hondius I, Claes Jansz Visscher, The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish, c. 1619, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1980.45.223

The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish

Hendrik Hondius I, Claes Jansz Visscher · c. 1619 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1980.45.223

Jacques de Gheyn III, Hendrik Hondius I, Mars Sleeping, c. 1618, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2005.12.1

Mars Sleeping

Jacques de Gheyn III, Hendrik Hondius I · c. 1618 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2005.12.1

Robert de Baudous, Hendrik Hondius I, Isaac Oliver, Miniature Painter, 1610, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1951.11.417

Isaac Oliver, Miniature Painter

Robert de Baudous, Hendrik Hondius I · 1610 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1951.11.417

Andries Jacobsz Stock, Hendrik Hondius I, Jacob de Gheyn, 1610, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.14.526

Jacob de Gheyn

Andries Jacobsz Stock, Hendrik Hondius I · 1610 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1950.14.526

Hendrik Hondius I, Maurice, Prince of Orange, 1608, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.14.867

Maurice, Prince of Orange

Hendrik Hondius I · 1608 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1950.14.867

This drawing is of a detailed interior scene with figures in a cave-like environment. There is a contrast between the illuminated figures near the entrance and those in the deeper, darker parts of the cave. At the top there is another scene showing smaller figures holding and casting shadows. There is Latin text above and below the drawing.
Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Hendrik Hondius I, Plato's Cave, 1604, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1983.61.1

Plato's Cave

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Hendrik Hondius I · 1604 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1983.61.1