Saint Martin with His Horse in a Ship

c. 1561

Lucas van Doetechum

Artist, Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder

Artist, Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 33.7 x 42.9 cm (13 1/4 x 16 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1968.24.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 217, State i/iii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1993

  • Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640, as by Jan and/or Lucas van Doetechum, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Evanston, Illinois; Ackland Art Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, no. 41.

2000

  • The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951: Vol. III (after Bosch), no. 16, state i/iii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Van Doetecum Family, Henk Nalis, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998: no. 217, state i/iii.

Inscriptions

within image at center left, in plate: .S. MARTINI.; lower right in plate: Jheronimus bos invetor / H. COCK EXC.; across bottom in plate below image: De[n] goede[n] Sinte Marten is hier gestelt: onder al dit Cruepel[en], Vuijl arm gespuijs: haer deijlende sijnen mantele inde stede va[n] gelt; nou vechte[n] se om de proije, dit quaet gedruijs

Wikidata ID

Q65510334


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