Saturn Presiding Over Agriculture

1596

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.5 × 17.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 25.2 cm (13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.31.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 50, State iii/v


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXIII: no. 50, iii/v.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996, no. 657, iii/vi.

Inscriptions

in image, lower left, in plate: 1; in image, bottom center, in plate: cum privil. S. C. M.; in image, bottom center, in plate: HG. Invent. Johan Sanredam scup.; in image, lower right, in plate: Ao. 1569.; below image, in plate: Aurea me quondam terris regnante fuerunt / Tempora, sponte sua quevis tellure ferente. / C. Schoneus; outside of plate, at left, in black ink by a later hand: G1; below plate, in black ink by a later hand: 15p

Markings

none

Watermarks

shield with three fleur de lys


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