Inscription
in text around oval, in plate: HENRICUS MAGNUS DEI GRATIA GALLIAE ET NAVARRAE REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.; in margin below image, in plate: Quantum aliis reges tantundem regibus exstans, / Et bello, et belli victor, et ipse sui, / Hic ille Henricus, quo Gallia dante recepit / Fracta decus, mores barbara, puaper opes. / H. Grotius.
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.
Bibliography
- 1993
- The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 226, copy f, ii/ii.
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