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Object Type
Museum number: O,6.89
Title: Object: Dantes Aligerivs
Description: Portrait of Dante Alighieri; a bust portrait of Dante within an inscribed oval at centre, crowned with laurels and holding a book; above, a portrait of Beatrice crowned with laurels within a roundel, flanked by a diagram of the Paradiso on the left and a celestial diagram on the right; below, a double portrait of Virgil crowned with laurels, within a roundel, flanked by the Inferno on the left and a diagram of the earthly paradise on the right; the whole within a frame ornamented with cherubs and grotesques.
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Print made by: Cornelis Galle I; Published by: Philips Galle; Formerly attributed to: Cornelis Galle the Younger (Galle, Cornelis II)
School/style
Production date: 1591-1612
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 269 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 201 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For another impression see R,7.92.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (292) (Johannes Stradanus); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (162) (under Cornelis Galle II); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (791)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: paradise; hell
Associated names: Portrait of: Dante; Portrait of: Beatrice, Countess of Arundel; Portrait of: Virgil
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1810 (before)
Acquisition notes: with Philipe's blindstamp but no initials
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: O,6.89

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