Aqua (Water)
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 × 21 cm (6 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
sheet: 17.4 × 21.5 cm (6 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.38.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1283, State i/ii
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-,
Inscriptions
in margin below image, in plate: Rerum AQVA principium, chaos, et fons est, et origo, / Frugibus unde vigor seminibusque venit. / Squamigeros homini pisces alimenta ministrat; / Et quo navigijs transeat, aptat iter. (Water is the origin, the chaos, the wellspring of things, Whence comes vigor to fruits and seeds. She furnishes scaly fish as nourishment to mankind; And anywhither the shipborne journey passes, she accommodates. [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.50.]) / Adrian. Collaert invent. sculp. et excud.
Markings
none
Watermarks
present but undeciphered
Wikidata ID
Q77259532