Arma (Armour)

1597

Jan Sadeler I

Associated Names
Jan Sadeler I

Artist/publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Jan van der Straet

Artist After, Flemish, 1523 - 1605

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Family of Yde and Marjon van der Meulen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate): 20.6 × 28 cm (8 1/8 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2026.43.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 380, state only [Johannes Stradanus]

  • Series Title

    Schema, seu speculum principum (Skills of a Prince)

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marjon van der Meulen; gift to NGA, 2026.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in plate, in margin at top center: ARMA; in plate, within image at bottom center: Joā Stradano figurauit. Joā. Sadeler scalpsit et excudit.; in plate, in margin below image: Nec minus armorum studijs, bellique labore,
/ Et clara Princeps Palladis arte micet. / Tum, si quando hostes patrias auertere praedas
/ Regnatus ueniant et populare domos, / Obuia signa ferat, tutetur milite fines; /
Crebra ruant tela, et plumbea grando cadat.; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: cte [?] / 15; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: DT

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