Godefroy Wendelin, 1648

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.6 x 18.9 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/16 in.)

sheet: 26.4 x 20.2 cm (10 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 16

Accession Number

2000.79.1

Artists / Makers

Philip Fruytiers (artist) Flemish, 1610 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: AEtatis LXVIII; upper right in plate: Ao. MDC.XLVIII; across lower center in plate: AD EFFIGIEM RDX. ET DOCTISSIMI VIRI DOMINI / I.V.D. GODOFREDI WENDELINI OFF. TORN. / Ausonio, Graeco, Hebraeo sermone disertus...Omnia qui nouit, noscitur hâc tabulâ / Ph. Fruijtiers ad vivum delin. et fecit.

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis and Daughter, San Rafael, CA); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

R. E. lewis

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