Inscription
lower left in plate: JDG (in monogram) F. 1616.; lower center in plate: PITTACVS MITYLENAEVS. / Loqui ignorabit, qui tacer nesuit... / ... Paucos amicos rebus adversis proba; lower left: 4; lower right: Fac Ausonius
Provenance
(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2007 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 2008
- Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 54.
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. (De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2000, "De Gheyn III," no. 8, state only.
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