Philip Cluver, Geographer, 1625

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper, mounted to another sheet of paper

Dimensions

sheet: 15.5 × 10.2 cm (6 1/8 × 4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Franken and van der Kellen 1883, no. 10 and 456-465 (attributed to Van de Velde)

Accession Number

1950.14.319

Artists / Makers

Crispijn van de Passe I (related artist) Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637

Jan van de Velde II (artist) Dutch, 1593 - 1641

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: PHILIPPUS CLUVERIUS. / GEOGRAPHUS.

Provenance

W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Dukes, W. B.
Marx, Hermann
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1883: Franken, D. and J.Ph. van der Kellen. L'Oeuvre de Jan van de Velde. Amsterdam: Frederik Muller et Cie; Paris: Rapilly, 1883. Reprint. Amsterdam: G.W. Hissink en Co., 1968: no. 10 and 456-465 (accidentally listed twice).