The Plague of Frogs
1585
Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600
Publisher, Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 20 × 28.6 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
sheet: 20.9 × 29.4 cm (8 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.91.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 56
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles Hack, New York; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXI (Johannes Sadeler I): no. 56.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2018: Part I, no. 60, i/iii.
Inscriptions
lower left in image: JHSaeijler; in plate, along lower edge: Ranarum, Ciniphum, muscarum hinditur agmen; Et terra natis corpoibuque nocent. Exod: 8; 4; by later hand, verso in graphite: Le [not deciphered] des grenouilles, des abeilles(?) des mouches et ven [not deciphered] aux hommes
Wikidata ID
Q76560806