Pride

Jacob Matham

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1631

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32.3 x 16.9 cm (12 11/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.8 x 26 cm (14 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.60.44

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein no. 150, state i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

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 Hertzberge

1980

  • The Illustrated Bartsch 4, New York, 1980: 132.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Léna Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 150, i/iii.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: HG Inue. I. Matham Scul; lower left in plate: 1.; across bottom in plate: Démona turbauit vesana Superbia celo, / Elysus miseros nos huc detrusit ab hortis. F.E.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: D.36.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: (not deciphered)

Watermarks

Tower

Wikidata ID

Q75122212

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