print
- Museum number
- 1857,0613.564
- Title
- Object: Emblema Hodierni rerum status in Belgica foederata
- Description
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Allegory of the flourishing state of the United Provinces; a hunt with Prince Maurice riding on horseback and leading a procession of fellow riders comprising his generals; ahead is a horse laden with dead animals caught from the hunt; a ribbon is presented to a finely attired woman representing the federation of "Belgica" standing under the coats-of-arms of the various provinces and flanked by female attendants, personifications of art and science; floating overhead is a trumpeting Victory with a laurel wreath; in the foreground at left, a boy stands besides a man with a rifle on his shoulder and holds the collar of a large hunting dog. 1602
Engraving
- Production date
- 1602
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres
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Width: 560 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression see 1882,0812.468 and 1870,0625.706.
Literature: I.M. Veldman, 'Maurice as the Nimrod of his Age: Political Propaganda Prints by Jan Saenredam', in The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 58 (2010), pp. 129-137.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1987 Jan-May, Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery, 'The Blasted Oak'
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0613.564