Saturn Presiding Over Agriculture, 1596

Not on View

series Title

The Seven Planetary Gods and Their Children

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.5 × 17.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 in.)

sheet: 35.3 × 25.2 cm (13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 50, State iii/v

Accession Number

2022.31.1

Artists / Makers

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, lower left, in plate: 1; in image, bottom center, in plate: cum privil. S. C. M.; in image, bottom center, in plate: HG. Invent. Johan Sanredam scup.; in image, lower right, in plate: Ao. 1569.; below image, in plate: Aurea me quondam terris regnante fuerunt / Tempora, sponte sua quevis tellure ferente. / C. Schoneus; outside of plate, at left, in black ink by a later hand: G1; below plate, in black ink by a later hand: 15p

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXIII: no. 50, iii/v.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996, no. 657, iii/vi.