Dies I (First Day), 1589

Not on View

series Title

The Creation of the World (plate 2)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (diameter): 26.4 cm (10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 36, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2021.26.2

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at top center: Dies I; in plate, at bottom center: HG excud.; on mount, at lower center in graphite in later hand: B. 36 / W. 36 II / D IV. 497,2; on mount, at lower center in red ink in later hand: 8793.

Marks and Labels

recto: Friedrich August, King of Saxony (Lugt 971); verso: none

Provenance

Friedrich August, King of Saxony [1797-1854] (Lugt 971). (Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999: no. 36, ii/ii.