Inscription
in plate, in margin below image: Spiritus in sylvas desertaque dux it Iesum / Ut grave sentiret tentamen ab hoste maligno. / Commonstrat Satanas et regna potentia mundi / Et quoscunq[ue] tenet pulcherrimus orbis honores.; lower right, in margin below image: S. Vranx. In
Marks and Labels
lower right, stamped in black ink: Friedrich Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (Lugt 971)
Provenance
Friedrich August von Sachsen II [1696 - 1763]; (E. H. Ariëns Kappers, Amsterdam); purchased 2013 by NGA.
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, no. 1, i/ii (as after Vrancx)
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