Terra (Earth), c. 1587

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series Title

The Four Elements

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.5 × 23 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

sheet: 24.1 × 35 cm (9 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ramon Osuna

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 526

Accession Number

2018.209.6

Artists / Makers

Jan Sadeler I (artist) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Dirck Barendsz (artist after) Dutch, 1534 - 1592

Jan Sadeler I (publisher) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

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Inscription

upper center in image: TERRA; lower center in image: I Sadeler scalps et excud: francofurt ad moenum; lower right in image: Theodor Bernard A / inventor; lower center in plate: Diua colens terra et clara reperta minis trans; / Alma fave terris et tua sceptra rege / Solae namqu; datum nos tros tibi Nosse labores / Nec terris maius Pallade Numen ines t.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 19298; 83 c

Provenance

Unidentified collector (not in Lugt); Ramon Osuna, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Osuna Galleries

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 Hertzberge: no. 526