Ignis (Fire), after 1587

Not on View

series Title

The Four Elements

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate (approx): 17.2 × 21.2 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet (approx): 17.6 × 21.5 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1284, State i/iii

Accession Number

2017.38.3

Artists / Makers

Adriaen Collaert (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1560 - 1618

Image Use

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Inscription

in margin below image, in plate: IGNIS, seu flammans, caelo qui proximus, Aether; / Materia altisono fulminis unde Iovi: / Flammarum immodicus vi multa uritq[ue] necatque; / Ast modicus grato multa calore fovet. (Fire, or the blazing Ether, near to heaven; Whence [comes] to sublime Jove the substance of fine: Beyond measure, by the power of flames, he burns and destroys many things; But keeping a proper measure, with pleasing heat he fosters many things.) [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.49.]) / Corn. Kil. Duffl. / Adrian. Collaert inuent. sculp. et excud.

Marks and Labels

none

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. 1284, i/iii