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Jan Pietersz Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius

Touch, c. 1595

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series Title

The Five Senses [Holl. 101-05]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 17.5 × 12.5 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 105

Accession Number

1943.3.4642

Artists / Makers

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: 5; in plate, below image: two lines of Latin verse; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: B 99

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

2000: "Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1700", The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle; The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 39.

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

2000: Sherman, Claire Richter. Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Exh. cat. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2000, no. 30.

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