Vulcan Hanging an Iron Net above the Bed

1580-1628

Hans Collaert the Younger

Artist, Flemish, 1566 - 1628

Philip Galle

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.2 × 22.7 cm (7 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.644

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 1166, State i/ii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 6, 2006; 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. 96, only

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1166, i/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at lower left: Phls Galle inue et excudit / Ioan. Coll. Scalp.; below image: Mulciber è gracili fabricatas aere catenas / Cassesqué in lecto, stragula ficta, locat. / Quorum materies dum lumina fallit amantum, / Implicitum laqueis prodit utrumque suis.; below image, at center: 3.

Wikidata ID

Q76557554

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