Jonah Thrown into the Stormy Sea

1610/1620

Justus Sadeler

Artist, Flemish, 1583 - 1620

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21 x 26.8 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
    overall: 28.6 x 35.4 cm (11 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.136.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 33, State only


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Incorporated, New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

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

Inscriptions

lower left in image: Paulus Bril inventor. Iu. Sadeler excudit; across bottom of plate: Ionas puppe codens, Ceto sorbente voratus, / In pelago non sensit aquas vitale sepulcrum / Ne moreretur habens tandemq. e ventre ferino / Venit ad ignotas tutus sine remige terras:; by later hand, upper right in ink: 54; by later hand, lower left in graphite: J.S.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Justus 33; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 98/021

Watermarks

unidentified fragment

Wikidata ID

Q75426230


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