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print
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perspective view
Object Type
print
perspective view
Museum number
1933,0614.133
Title
Object:
Thuscana
Object:
Visus
Series:
Five Senses
Description
Plate 1: Sight or Tuscan Order; perspective view of a colonnade with columns of the Tuscan order, a man aiming a cross-bow at right, a woman holding a mirror while sitting next to an eagle; after the engraving by Hendrick Hondius who worked after a design by Paul Vredeman de Vries Engraving
Producer name
After:
Hendrik Hondius I
(engraving)
After:
Paul Vredeman de Vries
Published by:
Justus Sadeler
School/style
Dutch
Flemish
Production date
1606-1620
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
231 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
337 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is the first plate of a set showing the five senses after engravings by Hondius designed by Paul Vredeman de Vries; for comment see 1933,0614.128.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(576-606)
(Hendrick Hondius; copy)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(615)
(Vredeman de Vries; copy described on p.238)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
allegory/personification
architecture
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Purchased through:
C G Boerner
(sale Leipzig, 22/4.v.1933/900)
Funder name
Funded by:
H L Florence Fund
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
(L.51)
Acquisition date
1933
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1933,0614.133