Poetry

c. 1597

Cornelis Jacobsz Drebbel

Artist, Dutch, 1572 - 1633

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16 x 13.2 cm (6 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.), cut within platemark

  • Accession

    2011.139.78

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 7

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Goltzius). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 702

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso, in graphite: p 85/834/4; by later hand, lower center verso, in graphite, "Poetry" no. 4 replacing rhetoric; by later hand, lower center verso, in pen and black ink, le reltorique drebbel

Wikidata ID

Q76559197

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