The Shipwreck, c. 1595

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 236, State i/ii

Accession Number

1964.8.469

Artists / Makers

Simon Novellanus (artist) German, active c. 1560/1590

Cornelis Cort (artist after) Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Joris Hoefnagel (publisher) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom center, in image beside figure of Ars, in plate: Omnia mea / mecum / porto (I carry all my possessions with me); in margin below image, in plate: Tales opes sunt comparandae, quae navi fracta una cum domino queant enatare (such riches must be acquired [namely] those that may be rescued from the sea in a shipwreck along with their master),// Res est multa omnium pretiosissima / omnibus hominibus ad vivendum, ARS. // Caetera enim et tempus, et mutationes / Fortunae absumunt, Ars autem conservatur. (By far the most precious thing to live for, for all people is Art, for Fate takes away all else, with time and vicissitudes of life, but Art is preserved.) // Cornelius Cort Battavus fec: / excud: Hoef: cum prae: Caes:

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 Hertzberge

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Cornelis Cort, Manfred Sellink author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 236, state i/ii.

1996: Serebrennikov, Nina Eugenia. "Imitating Nature / Imitiating Bruegel," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 47, 1996, pp. 223-246.