The Perniciousness of Men

1586

Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Jan Sadeler I

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ramon Osuna

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.1 × 27.5 cm (8 5/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 22.2 × 29.5 cm (8 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.209.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 37

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum (Lugt 240). Ramon Osuna, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • ollstein, 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: no. 37

Inscriptions

top center in image: IX; lower left in image Joann: Sadeler auctor / et sculptor excud: Martin de Vos figuravit; lower center in image: Genesis capit: 6; lower center in plate: Creuit in immensum numeru miserabile vulgus, / Illicitos iungens thalamos, vetitosque hijmenaeos. / Nulla honor, cultusq; Dei pietasque remansit, / Lustra tamen duodena Deus bis pertulit ista; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 4378

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