Jonah Thrown into the Stormy Sea, 1610/1620

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21 x 26.8 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
overall: 28.6 x 35.4 cm (11 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 33, State only

Accession Number

1999.136.1

Artists / Makers

Justus Sadeler (artist) Flemish, 1583 - 1620

Paul Bril (artist after) Flemish, 1554 - 1626

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: Paulus Bril inventor. Iu. Sadeler excudit; across bottom of plate: Ionas puppe codens, Ceto sorbente voratus, / In pelago non sensit aquas vitale sepulcrum / Ne moreretur habens tandemq. e ventre ferino / Venit ad ignotas tutus sine remige terras:; by later hand, upper right in ink: 54; by later hand, lower left in graphite: J.S.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Justus 33; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 98/021
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Provenance

(Hill-Stone Incorporated, New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.

Exhibition History

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

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