Inscription
lower left, in image, in plate: HG. / Ao 1594.; lower left, numbered in image, in plate: 3; below image, in plate: Caeli opifex, rerum dominus, Divûm atque hominum Rex / Nascitur en vilis tuguri sub paupere tecto, / Et praesepe tenet, quem non capit arduus aether, / Non mare, non tellus, non vasti machina mundi. / F. Estius. (See, the creator of heaven, the lord of all things, the King of Gods and man, is born under the poor roof of a a miserable hut and He who is greater than the high ether, the sea, the earth, than all the structures of the great universe, lies inside a manager. F.[ranco] Estius.); center verso, in graphite by a later hand: H. GOLTIUS; lower center verso, in graphite by a later hand: B17, / DTMMBAK
[Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. _Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings._ Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 210.]
Exhibition History
- 1994
- A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 14.
Bibliography
- 1802
- Bartsch 17.
- 1921
- Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie
- 1977
- Strauss 1977, 319.
- 1993
- The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 10, ii/ii.
- 1994
- A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 14.
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