The Four Elements

1588

Jacob Matham

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrick Goltzius

Publisher, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.9 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.2 x 23.4 cm (12 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.563

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 348, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt); (Christie's, London, June 26, 1985, lot 150)?; Valerie Mulder, London; Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 17, 1992; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

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

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. 237, i/iii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 348, i/iii (as attributed to Matham)

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom right: HGoltzius Inue. / et excud. Ao. 1588; below image: Sub caelo Pater omnipotens Elementa locauit / Quatuor, his constat quicquid hic orbis habet. / Hînc homines, pecudes, hinc arbor, et erba, frutexque / Hinc mortale omne est, caetera Nectar alit.

Wikidata ID

Q76557193

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