Aser
c. 1585; published 1643
Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600
Publisher, Dutch, 1586/1587 - 1652
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (cut within platemark): 21.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2005.128.8.a
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 70, State ii/ii
Associated Artworks
See all 4 artworks
Ruben
Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher
1585
Levi
Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher
1585
Gad
Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher
1585
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2005 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXI (Johannes Sadeler I), no. 70, ii/ii.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Crispijn van den Broeck, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2011: Part I, no. 58, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: ASER; lower right in plate: .9.; in margin below image, in plate: Pingne solum tibi dona tulit cerealia multa, / Nec Asaro desunt munera bacche tuae. / Regibus hinc prodes multis uinoq[ue] paneq[ue] / Temperat a[m]brosias cum tura dapes. (The fat earth has brought you many gifts of corn. Nor does Aser lack your bounty, Bacchus. Thus you serve many kinds with wine and bread, when the fruits of the earth help to temper the exquisite meals. [translation from Veldman, Ilja M., and H. J. de Jonge, "The sons of Jacob: the twelve patriarchs in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and popular literature," Simiolus, vol. 15 (1985), no. 3, p. 196.])
Wikidata ID
Q76343314