Bird Dropping Blinding Tobit, c. 1565

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series Title

Landscapes with the Story of Tobias

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.7 × 32.2 cm (9 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.)

sheet: 25.5 × 34 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum family), no. 423, State i/ii

Accession Number

1975.65.2

Artists / Makers

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder (artist) Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

Lucas van Doetechum (artist) Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Hans Bol (artist after) Netherlandish, 1534 - 1593

Gerard de Jode (publisher) Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, bottom center, in plate: H Bol inuentor; in margin below image, in plate: Senior Tobias se quieti tradens passerum Stercore c[a]ecus fit; in margin below image, at right, in plate: 1; in margin below plate, at far right: Gerar: d Jode excude:; verso, ‌lower right, in graphite by a later hand: Die Tobias... / IKM [in rectangle]/6; verso, vertically at upper right, in graphite by a later hand: Dublette, verglichen P-B; verso, lower left, vertically, in graphite by a later hand: Bol, Hans

Provenance

Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel (Lugt 222b and Lugt 5902); (Kennedy Galleries, New Yok); purchased 1975 by NGA.

Associated Names

Kennedy Galleries
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1951: III (Hans Bol): no. 207.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Van Doetecum Family, Henk Nalis, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998: Part II, no. 423, i/ii; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 30, i/ii; (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2018: Part I, no. 177, i/ii.