Moses and the Brazen Serpent

1580-1633

Schelte Adams Bolswert

Artist, Flemish, 1586 - 1659

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 47.5 × 61.5 cm (18 11/16 × 24 3/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.513

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 2, State undesc./vi

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edward Peart [1756 or 1758-1824], London and Butterwick (Lugt 891). (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 15, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 2, undesc./vi

Inscriptions

Below image: FECIT ERGO MOYSES SERPENTEM AENEVM, ET POSVIT EVM PRO SIGNO: QVEM CVM PERCVSSI ASPICERENT SANABANTVR. / NOBILI AC GENEROSO DOMINO DNO FRANCISCO GOVBAV, TOPARCHAE DE TRIEST, MESPELAER, ETC. D. C. Q. AEGIDIVS HENRICI.; below image, at left: Pet. Paul. Rubbens pinxit. / S. à Bolswert sculpsit.; below image, at right: Numeri 21. / Antuerpiae; in image, at bottom left, in pen and black ink: EP.

Wikidata ID

Q76557068

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