print
- Museum number
- 1972,0722.6.8
- Title
- Series: Academia sive Speculum Vitae Scolasticae
- Description
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Tennis court: scenes from academic life; four students playing tennis in an indoor tennis court, a seating figure in the left foreground, a row of spectators in a gallery at right
Engraving with etching
- Production date
- 1612
- Dimensions
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Height: 98 millimetres
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Width: 133 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, for comment see 1972,0722.6.1.
This plate was later re-used in Passe's 'Nieuwen Jeucht Spieghel' (1617), p. 89.
According to Veldman, the tennis court depicted in this print is probably the private court of the University of Leiden in Noordeinde.
Literature:
Ilja M. Veldman, 'Profit and Pleasure: Print Books by Crispijn de Passe' (Studies in prints and printmaking 4), Rotterdam 2001, pp. 33-59, esp. p. 48 and note 1 on p. 118.
Ilja M. Veldman, 'Images for the eye and soul: function and meaning in Netherlandish prints', Leiden 2006, pp. 231-240.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1972
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,0722.6.8