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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1864,1114.474
Description
Portrait of a man wearing a ruff, bust to right Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Johannes Wierix
Print made by:
Hendrik Goltzius
(formerly attributed)
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1600-1620
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
125 millimetres
Width:
114 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Rejected as a print executed after Goltzius. This print was hitherto undescribed in the literature on Goltzius. The print is an unfinished proof, before the completion of the background sky. See also 1864,1114.473 for a finished but unlettered impression.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(2188)
(The Wierix family)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(R39.I)
(Hendrick Goltzius; Rejected)
Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné
(1956)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Holloway (& Son)
Acquisition date
1864
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1864,1114.474
Conservation
Treatment
: 18 Feb 2013