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1585

Adriaen Collaert after Hans Bol

Associated Names
Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Jan Sadeler I

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Hans Bol

Artist After, Flemish, Flemish, 1534 - 1593

This is a drawing of an ornamental frame surrounding a central text in Latin. The engravings feature classical and biblical iconography including figures at the top corners, musical instruments, pastoral elements, scholars with a book and a bull, a woman with a lamb, friezes, and swags. Central and above and below the main text are decorative arrangements of fruits, flowers, and agricultural produce. The drawing is monochrome, emphasizing fine lines and intricate patterns.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 14.4 × 20.6 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.359

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 225, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, 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. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2005: Part II, no. 225, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 71.

Inscriptions

bottom center, in plate, below image: Sadeler Excudebat; center, in plate: EMBLEMATA EVANGELICA / AD XII SIGNA COELESTIA SIVE / totidem ani menses accommodata: / QVIBVS CHRISTVS HOMINES, QVI ASTRIS, / ad distinguenda tantum tempora initio a Deo (ut est Gen.I) / conditis, idololatricum cultum prestiterant: per has ipsas / creaturas ad unius omnium creatoris cultum / reuocat, & regnuin celeste mystice / ob oculos ponit.

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65506448

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