Sailing Boats in a Tempest

c. 1638

Schelte Adams Bolswert

Artist, Flemish, 1586 - 1659

Andries van Eertvelt

Artist After, Flemish, 1590 - 1652

Schelte Adams Bolswert after Andries van Eertvelt

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33 x 44.8 cm (13 x 17 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 34.5 x 46.3 cm (13 9/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.182.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 325, State undesc./v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1873

  • Schneevoogt, C. G. Voorhelm. Catalogue des Estampes gravées d'après P. P. Rubens. Haarlem: Les Héritiers Loosjes, 1873.

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

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Andreas van Artvelt pinxit / S. à Bolswert sculpsit.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: (not deciphered) / 1 Epreuve avant tout address; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 990598

Watermarks

Bend with BD (similar to Heawood 61)

Wikidata ID

Q76357324

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