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1588

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.3 x 26.5 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.7 x 27.9 cm (14 1/16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.51

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 151, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Norman Jack Leitman [b. 1934], San Diego, CA (Lugt 4545). (R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased November 20, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

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

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie; no. 131

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 151, i/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at top centre: Dispellit tenebras, tortumqué illuminat orbem / Sol rutilus radiante coma, et fulgore corusco; in image, at bottom centre: HG. fe. / Ao. 88.

Wikidata ID

Q76342181

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