Title Page, 1765

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Medium

etching and woodcut printed in two shades of brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 25.5 × 24.2 cm (10 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.) cut within platemark

Credit Line

Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr.

Catalogue Raisonné

Laurentius et al. 1980, no. 1

Accession Number

1977.67.1

Artists / Makers

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (artist) Dutch, 1726 - 1798

Image Use

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Inscription

in image: Viro / Amplissimo Nobilissimo, / Jonæ Witsenio / Icto, civium Amstelædamensium / Patri Consuliq. / Vigilantissimo, / Omnium artium ac disciplinarum / Patrono: / Sed inprimis Picturæ ejusq. partium / Maecenati & Exercitori / Haereditario; / Hunc æri incisorum Extyporum fasciculum / quasi manu exarata & delineata / Excellentissimorum inter Belgas / Pictorum / imitantium, / ea qua par est reverentia / D.D.D. / Inventor / Cornelius Ploos van Amstel / D. 1 Febr. / 1765; verso along bottom in graphite: Geoffererd aan myne / zeer...Vriend . den Heer J. Lublink / ... / ... / Ploos v Amstel / Ploos van Amstel Fecit 176...

Marks and Labels

verso: artist's mark (Eusman 1)

Provenance

Johannes Lublink II [1736-1816] (handwritten dedication)

Associated Names

Lublink, Johannes
Smith, Jr., Sherwood B.

Bibliography

1980: Laurentius, Th. et al. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel 1726-1798, kunstverzamelaar en prentuitgever. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1980.