A Beach with Fishermen Cutting Up a Whale and the Prophet Elijah

1620s

Magdalena van de Passe

Artist, Dutch, 1600 - 1638

Crispijn van de Passe I

Publisher, Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.5 × 34 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
    plate: 21 × 26.6 cm (8 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.103.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 20

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co.: Vol XVI, no. 20, state only.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image: Et ait Helias Reuertere et aspice Septem vieibus, et factum est in Septima, et ecce nubes parua quasi vestigium viri ascendebat de mari / E Reg Cap. 18; in plate, at lower left: Adam Willeres Inuentor; in plate, at lower center: Magdalena van de pas fecit; in plate, at lower right: Crispin van de pas exud; verso: none

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