Title Plate, c.1565-1571

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series Title

Grottesco

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.6 × 20.7 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 21.7 × 31 cm (8 9/16 × 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum Family), no. 446, State i/ii

Accession Number

1944.2.100.1

Artists / Makers

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder (artist) Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

Lucas van Doetechum (artist) Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Hans Vredeman de Vries (artist after) Netherlandish, 1527 - c. 1606

Gerard de Jode (publisher) Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

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Inscription

at center, in plate: Grottesco: in diversche manieren / Zeer Chierlijck bequaem en oirboorlijc / voor Schilder, Glasschrijuers, Beeldsnijders / En al die de Chierlijcke ornamenten der / Antiquen beminnen, ghemackt bij / Iohans Vredeman Vriese, wth ghegheuen / duer Geraert de Ieude; below plate, in black ink by a later hand: 43; lower left corner, in black ink by a later hand: 40

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1943; gift to NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Van Doetecum family, Henk Nalis with Peter Fuhring, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998: Part II, no. 446, i/ii; (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2018: Part III, no. 819, i/iii.