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Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.1 × 22.6 cm (6 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.657

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 527, State only

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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. 527, only

Inscriptions

in image, at top center: MARE; in image, at lower left: T. B. Amst: iuet: / Joa: Sadeler scalps; below image: Quem penes arbitrium vasti manet aequoris omne / Per tua, Neptune ô, regna tridente potens. / Da facilem ratibusque viam facilesque recursus / Hanc Deus humanis adijce rebus opem.

Wikidata ID

Q76557595

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