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1587

Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.8 × 22.8 cm (7 × 9 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.658

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 528, 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. 528, only

Inscriptions

in image, at top center: IGNIS; in image, at lower left: T. B. A. in.; in image, at lower right: I. Sadl. Scalps; below image: Iupiter in Coelo regit omnia lumine clara / Atque creata suo cuncta calore fouet / Ille manu magna spargit tela aspera, et idem / Igne micans summa fulgurat arce Deus.

Wikidata ID

Q76557597

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