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Crispijn de Passe the Elder

Also known as: Crispijn de Passe the Elder; primary name: Passe, Crispijn de; other name: De Passe, Crispin; other name: Van de Passe, Crispin
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; publisher/printer; Flemish; Male
Life dates: 1564-1637
Biography: Draughtsman, engraver and publisher; began his career in Antwerp but by 1589 had fled via Aachen to Cologne; 1611 to Utrecht; father of Simon, Magdalena, Crispin II and Willem.
Bibliography: I.M. Veldman, 'Crispijn de Passe and his Progeny (1564-1670): A Century of print production', Rotterdam 2001. I.M. Veldman, 'Views of a Printmaker: Crispijn de Passe on his Craft', in Images for the eye and soul: Function and Meaning in Netherlandish prints (1450-1650), Leiden, 2006. I.M. Veldman, 'The business of prints and the de Passes' Publishing House', in Images for the eye and soul: Function and Meaning in Netherlandish prints (1450-1650), Leiden, 2006.

1,055 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.615 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderFormerly attributed to:Francesco Vanni |
Production date: 1579-1637

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1928,0523.1 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Drawn by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1579-1637

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1946,0718.5 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Drawn by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1579-1637

drawing

Museum number: 1895,0915.1028 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Crispijn de Passe the ElderFormerly attributed to:Aegidius Sadeler II |
Production date: 1620-1630

drawing

Museum number: SL,5227.2 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Attributed to:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1579-1637

drawing

Museum number: 1881,0611.175 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Drawn by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1579-1637

plaque

Museum number: 1868,0627.5 |
Producer name: Engraved by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1585-1600 |
Production place: Made in:Antwerp (city)

plaquette

Museum number: 1915,1216.296 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 After:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 17thC(early) |
Production place: Made in:Germany

plaquette

Museum number: 1915,1216.260 |
Producer name: After:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1501-1625 |
Production place: Made in:Germany

print

Museum number: O,3.112 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1598

print

Title: Sibylla Cumana XII Sibylla Icones. The prophecies of the twelve s |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1101 |
Producer name: Print made by:Martin DroeshoutAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1620-1630

print

Title: Prometheus creating man The Metamorphoses |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2092 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1602-1604

print

Title: Illustriss Carolus Princeps Walliae Dux Cornw Eborac etc |
Museum number: 1848,0911.308 |
Producer name: Print made by:Simon van de PassePublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1622

print

Title: Felicitatis et opulentie typus Allegories of diligence and sloth |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2055 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1600 |
Production place: Published in:Cologne (city)

print

Title: Christian IV, King of Denmark Effigies Regum ac Principum ... in re nautica |
Museum number: 1948,0315.1.119 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Sibylla Cumaea The Sibyls |
Museum number: 2007,7003.1 |
Producer name: After:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Jacques Granthomme |
Production date: 1601-1609

print

Title: Oriens The Four Quarters of the World |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2098 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Philips Galle |
Production date: 1590-1637

print; ornament print

Title: Seer aerdige grotissen dienstich |
Museum number: 1974,0615.29.1-32 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johan BaraPrint made by:Heinrich Renbage |
Production date: 1596-1623 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Alexander Nowell |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1011 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 After:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1651

print

Title: Passio, mors et resurrectio dn. Nostri Iesu Christi |
Museum number: 1943,0709.149.13 |
Producer name: After:Jan van der StraetPrint made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1584-1587

print

Title: Augustus Roman Emperors on Horseback |
Museum number: O,3.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jan van der Straet |
Production date: 1579-1637

print

Title: Olfactus The five senses |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2106 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Sultan Mahmet II Amuratis F. Turcorum Imp: XV. Othom, Ingressus An 1595 |
Museum number: O,3.211 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1595-1637

print

Title: Fridericus IV. D.G. Comes Palatinus Rheni, Utriusque Bavariae dux, Sac Rom. Imperii Archidapifer, El |
Museum number: Bb,12.409 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Opera Misericordiae |
Museum number: 1937,0915.371 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1608

print

Title: Ernestus Comes Mansfeldiæ... |
Museum number: O,6.218 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Published by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600-1626

print; book-illustration

Title: Thomas Candish Armiger |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.36 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PassePrint made by:Willem van de Passe |
Production date: 1620 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print; book-illustration

Title: Robertus Cecilius Comes Sarisburiae |
Museum number: 1948,0315.1.118 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PassePrint made by:Willem van de Passe |
Production date: 1620 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.215 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print; title-page

Title: Effigies Regum ac Principum eorum scilicet quorum Viva et vera delineatio |
Museum number: 1895,1031.412 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1598

print

Title: The History of Susanna |
Museum number: 1937,0915.295 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Iophiel The Archangels |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2031 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Hortus Voluptatum |
Museum number: 1873,0614.91 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1599

print

Title: Four Landscapes with scenes from the story of Elijah |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2134 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PasseAfter:Adam Willaerts |
Production date: 1620-1630

print

Title: The Story of Adam and Eve |
Museum number: 1942,0720.1.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: Titus Roman Emperors on Horseback |
Museum number: O,3.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jan van der Straet |
Production date: 1579-1637

print; satirical print

Title: Monkeys playing a game |
Museum number: 1873,0614.111 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Formerly attributed to:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600-1637

print

Title: Her Sacred Majesty Queen Elizabeth Portraits of Royal Personnages |
Museum number: 1868,0822.2051 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles TurnerAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1816

print

Title: A bathhouse in Germany Hortus Voluptatum |
Museum number: 1873,0614.83 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1599

print

Title: The clothing of the naked The Seven Acts of Mercy and the Last Judgment |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2051 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: The 12 Months in roundels |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1158 |
Producer name: After:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Roger Daniell |
Production date: 1620-1630 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Anne of England |
Museum number: 1948,0315.5.61 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1604

print

Title: The History of Susanna |
Museum number: 1937,0915.294 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Academia sive Speculum Vitae Scolasticae |
Museum number: 1972,0722.6.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Johannes Janssonius |
Production date: 1612 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.188 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.204 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print

Title: Clemens VIII. Florentino. Pont. Max. |
Museum number: O,3.73 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1592

print; book-illustration

Title: Franciscus Drake Miles Auratus |
Museum number: 1948,0315.9.121 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PassePrint made by:Willem van de Passe |
Production date: 1620 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print

Title: Garden of a castle Hortus Voluptatum |
Museum number: 1873,0614.77 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1599

print

Title: Caligula The Twelve Emperors |
Museum number: 1873,0510.242 |
Producer name: After:Jan van der StraetPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600 |
Production place: Published in:Utrecht (city)

print

Title: The Choleric Temperament |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2107 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Auditus The Five Senses |
Museum number: 2003,0731.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem van de PasseAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1615-1625

print

Title: Frederick V |
Museum number: 1948,0315.11.28 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Academia sive Speculum Vitae Scolasticae |
Museum number: 1972,0722.6.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Johannes Janssonius |
Production date: 1612 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print

Title: Sibylla Eritraea XII Sibylla Icones. The prophecies of the twelve s |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1107 |
Producer name: Print made by:Martin DroeshoutAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1620-1630

print

Title: Venus in love with Adonis The Metamorphoses |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2090 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1602-1604

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.208 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print

Title: Sibylla dei Gratia Illustrissimi Princ ... |
Museum number: Bb,8.189 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Published by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1598-1637

print

Title: Titlepage "Four European Rulers" Four European Rulers |
Museum number: 1895,1031.411 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: The Four Seasons |
Museum number: 1877,0811.961 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PasseAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1620-1630

print

Title: Vespasianus The Twelve Emperors |
Museum number: 1873,0510.249 |
Producer name: After:Jan van der StraetPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600 |
Production place: Published in:Utrecht (city)

print

Title: The Story of Adam and Eve |
Museum number: 1942,0720.1.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: Conradus Baron in Bemelberg & Hohenburg |
Museum number: 1862,0208.13 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: Occidens The Four Quarters of the World |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2099 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Philips Galle |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: titlepage "The Sibyls" The Sibyls |
Museum number: 1875,0710.307 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1601

print; book-illustration

Title: Robertus Dudlius Comes Leycestriae Baro Denbig Gubern Belg Unit |
Museum number: 1948,0315.6.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem van de PassePublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1620 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print

Title: Lady and a gentleman seated in a garden Hortus Voluptatum |
Museum number: 1873,0614.85 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1599

print; book-illustration

Title: Iohannes Whitgiftus |
Museum number: 1851,1108.132 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PassePrint made by:Willem van de Passe |
Production date: 1620 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print

Title: The Story of Noah |
Museum number: 1942,0720.1.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1590

print; book-illustration

Title: Ambrosius Dudleius Comes Warwici Baro Lisle |
Museum number: G,8.266 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem van de PassePrint made by:Magdalena de Passe |
Production date: 1620 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print

Title: Lotharius D.G. Archieps Trevirensis S. R. Impe. pe Emperor Matthias and the Electors of the Empire |
Museum number: O,2.64 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Gortzius Geldorp |
Production date: 1601

print

Title: The Story of Noah |
Museum number: 1981,U.889 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1580-1600

print

Title: Mulier Samaritana The repentant sinners |
Museum number: 2002,0728.88 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem van de PasseAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1610-1620

print

Title: Ambrosius Spinola |
Museum number: Bb,12.479 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Opera Misericordiae |
Museum number: 1937,0915.374 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1608

print

Title: Henricus IIII Borbonius Dei Gratia Galliae ac Navarrae Rex Christianissimus Anno Salv. MDCI |
Museum number: 1848,0911.601 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Published by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1601 |
Production place: Published in:Cologne (city)

print

Title: The Seven Acts of Mercy and the Last Judgement |
Museum number: 1937,0915.132 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: The story of Susanna |
Museum number: 1873,0809.705 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1600

print

Title: Academia sive Speculum Vitae Scolasticae |
Museum number: 1972,0722.6.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Willem van Swanenburg |
Production date: 1612 |
Production place: Published in:Arnhem

print; book-illustration

Title: Elizabeth I |
Museum number: 1972,U.395.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert van VoerstAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1633

print

Title: Fame and History Roman emperors on horseback |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2118 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Dispar Humilitatis Superbiaeque Finis |
Museum number: 1896,1230.191 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Diligentiæ et Sedulitatis typus Allegories of diligence and sloth |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2054 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1600 |
Production place: Published in:Cologne (city)

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.181 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print

Title: Five Senses |
Museum number: 1922,0410.292 |
Producer name: Published by:Pierre LandryAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1650-1701

print

Title: Ioannes Adamus D.G. Archiepiscopus Moguntinensis S.R.I. Per Germaniam Archicanc. Princ. Elector Ao. |
Museum number: Bb,12.460 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Cornelius Hauser |
Production date: 1601

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.178 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print

Title: Mr Thomas Candish |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1896 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 After:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: late 18th century

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.174 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print

Title: The Story of Adam and Eve |
Museum number: 1942,0720.1.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: Chamael Set of archangels |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2024 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print; album

Title: Hortus Floridus: Altera Pars |
Museum number: 1952,0117.14.180 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Jacques Le Moyne |
Production date: 1593-1603

print

Title: Mars Set of Gods and Goddesses |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2112 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590-1637

print

Title: Venus Seven Planets |
Museum number: 1862,0712.331 |
Producer name: After:Maarten de VosPublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1600

print; book-illustration

Title: Thomas Cavendish |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1100 |
Producer name: Print made by:R PagePublished by:Longman |
Production date: 1820 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Life and Passion of Christ |
Museum number: 1868,0612.2008 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1599 |
Production place: Published in:Cologne (city)

print

Title: The Four Seasons |
Museum number: 1870,0625.138 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PasseAfter:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1620-1630

print

Title: The drowning of the children of the Hebrews Triumphus Martyrum |
Museum number: 1970,1212.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1591

print

Title: Sibylla Phrygia The Sibyls |
Museum number: 1875,0710.316 |
Producer name: BIOG41261 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1601

print; ornament print

Title: The Five Senses |
Museum number: 1867,0413.582 |
Producer name: Print made by:Heinrich RenbagePublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1590 |
Production place: Published in:Cologne (city)

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