Perspective View of a Street

1560

Lucas van Doetechum

Artist, Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder

Artist, Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21 × 26 cm (8 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 25.5 × 36.3 cm (10 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.64.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 163, State i/ii

Associated Artworks

See all 21 artworks

Scenographiae, sive Perspectivae

Lucas van Doetechum, Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Hieronymus Cock

1560

Square with a Circular Building on the Left and an Obelisk in the Background

Lucas van Doetechum, Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Hieronymus Cock

1560

Interior View of a Church with a Barrel Vault

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Hieronymus Cock, Lucas van Doetechum

1560


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ursus Rare Books, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2022

  • The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge (under de Vries): no.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (van Doetechum). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 163, i/ii

Inscriptions

in image, center right, in cartouche on building: iiii vens; lower right, in plate: Laet de Cock coken om tvolckx Wille (Let the cook [Hieronymus Cock] do the cooking for the sake of Volcxken [the people]); lower center in plate: .1.

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q77016131


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