The Plague of Frogs

1585

Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Gerard de Jode

Publisher, Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Hack

  • 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

  • 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


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