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Object Type
Museum number: 1957,0413.30
Title: Object: Iupiter; Series: Septem planetae
Description: Jupiter, seated on an eagle, on top of a pedestal; the eagle grasps a thunderbolt in its claws; three circles of light radiate from behind Jupiter's head; set within an oval Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Print made by: Jan Collaert II; Published by: Philips Galle
School/style
Production date: 1587 (after)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 184 millimetres (cut to oval); Width: 130 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: From a series of eight plates; the BM series is missing the title-page (lettered 'Septem Planetae, a celeberrimo pictore Ioan: ne Stradano depictae: et a Cornelio Kiliano Dufflaeo versibus illustratae. Ioannes Collardus sculpebat et Philippus Gallaeus edebat'). This print has been cut down to the oval, the Latin inscriptions in the margin, composed by Cornelis Kiliaan, have been lost. Literature: A. Baroni and M. Sellink, 'Stradanus 1523-1605: Court artist of the Medici', exh.cat. Groeningemuseum Brugge 2008-2009, Turnhout, 2012, pp.294-299, cat.no.91-98.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (392.I) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (700.2)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Zeus/Jupiter; Associated with: Cornelis Kiliaan
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1957
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1957,0413.30

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