Allegory of War
1578
Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
Publisher, Flemish, c. 1571 - 1633
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 19.9 × 36.4 cm (7 13/16 × 14 5/16 in.) (trimmed)
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Accession
2012.92.550
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein 1996, no. 204, State ii/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Samuel Leith [1800-1857], Edinburgh (Lugt 1767). (Paul McCarron, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 24, 1989; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
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. 112, iii/iv
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 204, ii/iv
Inscriptions
lettered in image, at lower center: Henric. Goltzius fecit. / Theodor. Galle excud; lettered in image, at top left: Impia quos ductet Mauros in bella maniplos, / Cùm bellona furens Martis agit atra iugales, / Picta tabella docet. Falcatum corpore currum / Mars premit, immani quatiens, hastilia dextra. / Exin Gorgoneis Alecto infecta venenis. / Vrget equos, torquens liquentia terga flagello. / Impetuosa nimis praecedunt agmina, et ipsa / Ipsa ATE pedibusque valens, et robore praestans / Atque gradu celeri, longè praeuertitur, omnes / Mortales laedens Pressura. / Turbine saeuo / subsequitur Pacis contemptus, fraude latentes / Insidiae, et nimium scelerata libido nocendi. / Pone sequebantur tetri de faucibus Orci / Orta laboriferae contagia feruida Pestis. / Proxima laethifero vitantia cuncta veneno.; on verso, in graphite: ak / d. (?) / Leith / June 17 / 1842; 13430.
Wikidata ID
Q76557159