Encomium Musices

c. 1589

Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Theodor Galle

Artist, Flemish, c. 1571 - 1633

Johan Wierix

Artist, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 or after

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound set of 17 engravings on laid paper, with an additional engraved Portrait of Stradanus (Jan van der Straet) by Jan Wierix mounted to first free endpaper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 39 × 27 × 1.8 cm (15 3/8 × 10 5/8 × 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.84.2.1-17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, nos. 473-488

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Associated Artworks

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The Women of Israel Singing and Dancing at David's Return

Adriaen Collaert, Theodor Galle, Johan Wierix

1584

David Playing the Harp Before Saul

Adriaen Collaert, Theodor Galle, Johan Wierix

1584

Musical Celebration of a Mass

Adriaen Collaert, Theodor Galle, Johan Wierix

1584

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Salloch; acquired in 1970 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (sale, Christie's New York via Ursus Books Ltd., 20 June 2013, no. 700); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Fact and Fantasy: illustrated books from a private collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1976, no. 43.

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: nos. 473-488.

Inscriptions

by later hand upper cover in graphite upper right: 70-37-18; center: The leaf of preface is very rare / and is missing in the copies in / the Brit. Mus. and the Conservatoire Nationale / According to Deutsch, a copy in sheets was sold by Davis + Orioli in 1943. / In 1965, Davis and Orioli in Cat 169, item 89 / catalogued a copy in vellum, probably this copy, / and possibly (underlined) the copy in sheets, which sometime from 1943 to 1965 had been bound. So this / copy might (underlined) be the fifth rather than a sixth copy. / collation (underlined): ref Deutsch facsimile, Chiswick Press, London 1943 / "The volume consists of an engraved title page, a preface / in letterpress, which is counted as plate 2, and sixteen / other engravings, numbered from 3 to 18."

Watermarks

coat-of-arms

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