Terra (Earth)
after 1587
Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 17.1 × 21 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
sheet: 17.5 × 21.2 cm (6 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2017.38.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1282, State i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
2022
The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.
Bibliography
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 1282, i/iii
Inscriptions
in margin below image, in plate: TERRA parens, qua non elementum est firmius ullum, / In media mundi parte locata manet. / Fert gramen, flores, laetas fert denique fruges, / Et reliqua unde animans vivere quodq[ue] queat. (Mother Earth, than whom no element is firmer, Abides, situated in the midpoint of the world. She bears grass, flowers, at length bears pleasing fruits, Animating from all quarters whatever is capable of life.) [translation from Melion, Walter S. and James Clifton_Through a Glass Darkly: Allegory & Faith in Nethlerlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt._Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2019, p.48.])/ Corn. Kil. Duffl. / Adrian. Collaert inuent. sculp. et excud.
Markings
none
Watermarks
present but undeciphered
Wikidata ID
Q77259531