Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii

published 1592

Jacob Hoefnagel

Artist, Flemish, 1573 - 1632/1633

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 52 engravings on laid paper; divided into four sequences of 12 leaves each, each sequence preceded by a title leaf

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

  • Dimensions

    page size: 24.1 × 32.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)
    plate: 15.5 × 20.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.20.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 17-64

Associated Artworks

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Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii [Part 1, Plate 7]

Jacob Hoefnagel

1592

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii [Part 2, Plate 6]

Jacob Hoefnagel

1592

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii [Part 1, Plate 5]

Jacob Hoefnagel

1592

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald [1893-1988], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999, no. 56, as Emblematic Page from Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii (Frankfurt).

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam, 1953: vol. IX, nos. 17-64.

1999

  • From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999: no. 56.

2017

  • Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600. Berlin, 2017: no. G 11.

Inscriptions

each print contains plate number in lL and part number in lR; signed and dated on title page for Part I and dated on title page for Part IV; each print also carries a Latin inscription

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