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Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Dirck Barendsz

Artist After, Dutch, 1534 - 1592

Jan Sadeler I, after Dirck Barendsz

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.4 × 23.2 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.656

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 526, State only

  • Series Title

    The Four Elements, as Mythological Figures (Plate 2)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone, 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. 526, only

Inscriptions

in image, at top center: TERRA; in image, at lower center: I Sadeler scalps: et excud: francofurt ad moenum; in image, at lower right: Theodor: Bernard: A / inventor; below image: Diua colens terra, et clara reperta ministrans; / Alma faue terris et tua sceptra rege / Solae mamque: datum nostras tibi nosse labores / Nec terris maius Pallade Numen inest.

Wikidata ID

Q76557594

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