print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1884,0112.65
- Title
- Object: Mercurio Mercimo Niorum Præsidi P.
- Description
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Plate 34: Mercury Departing from Antwerp; on a pedestal at the centre stands Mercury, wearing his winged helmet and sandals, readying for departure with a caduceus and purse raised in his outstretched hand; to the left the personification of a river god leans against a silenced cannon, sleeping, as a putto turns the bounds around his ankle; at right, the personification of Antwerp kneels on a block, with an anchor and broken oars beside her; in the background the stern of a ship rides the calm waters of the Schelde with the standard of the Spanish Netherlands flying; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
Etching
- Production date
- 1635-1641 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 335 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 271 millimetres
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Width: 543 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. Theodore van Thulden not only supervised the painting project for the entire Stage of Mercury (see 1884,0112.64), but he also personally executed the principal canvas of Mercury Departing from Antwerp for the central bay. This etching reproduces the painting, but also incorporates additional details, such as the two hands issuing from Antverpia's mural crown, which were not part of Rubens' preliminary design.
Lit: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 178-184.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Entry of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp 1635 (17 April)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Antwerp, 1641)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- For comments see 1884,0112.31.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1884,0112.65