The Fall of the Rebel Angels

1621

Lucas Emil Vorsterman

Artist, Flemish, 1595 - 1675

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper [counterproof]

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 56.7 × 43.3 cm (22 5/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
    mount: 6.8 × 48 cm (2 11/16 × 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.29.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 92, State i/iii (counterproof)

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels

1884

  • Dutuit (1884-85), vol.4, p.25, 1.

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

Inscriptions

recto: on plate, below image, along bottom: PHILIPPO IIII. HISPANIARVM REGI CATHOLICO INDIARVM MONARCHAE Humill. Lucas Vorsterman Sculptor D. D. / Cum priuilegys Regis Christianissimi, Principum Belgarum et Ord. Bataviae. Ao. 1621 [in reverse]; on mount, at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: H. 84I (counterproof) Dut VI, 25.I W.286

Markings

none

Watermarks

to identify

Wikidata ID

Q65573920

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