Inscription
bottom center, in plate, below image: Sadeler Excudebat; center, in plate: EMBLEMATA EVANGELICA / AD XII SIGNA COELESTIA SIVE / totidem ani menses accommodata: / QVIBVS CHRISTVS HOMINES, QVI ASTRIS, / ad distinguenda tantum tempora initio a Deo (ut est Gen.I) / conditis, idololatricum cultum prestiterant: per has ipsas / creaturas ad unius omnium creatoris cultum / reuocat, & regnuin celeste mystice / ob oculos ponit.
Marks and Labels
none
Provenance
(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.
Bibliography
- 1949
- Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.
- 1993
- The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2005: Part II, no. 225, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 71.
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