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Attributed to Hans Collaert the Younger after Jan van der Straet

Lapis Polaris, Magnes (The Lodestone, The Magnet), c. 1590/1593

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series Title

Nova Reperta (New Discoveries) [plate 2]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.2 × 26.7 cm (7 15/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

sheet: 27 × 35.1 cm (10 5/8 × 13 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1576

Artists / Makers

Hans Collaert the Younger (artist) Flemish, 1566 - 1628

Jan van der Straet (artist after) Flemish, 1523 - 1605

Philip Galle (publisher) Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

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Exhibition History

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1952: Vol. VII, no. 412.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Johannes Stradanus, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2008, no. 324, state i/iii.

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