print
- Museum number
- 1942,0720.1.16
- Title
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Object: Septentrio Boreas
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Series: The Four Quarters of the World
- Description
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Personification of the North Wind as a bearded man, nude and winged, showering snow from his hands down upon the wintry landscape with figures in a sleigh below; in an oval frame, set within a rectangular one, at the corners four heads blowing clouds; after Philips Galle
Engraving
- Production date
- 1590 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres (sheet)
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Height: 130 millimetres
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Width: 98 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of thirty-eight illustrations bound in an album which combines various (partial) series by de Passe and others, some after Maarten de Vos, as well as works executed and published by Philips Galle. The present engraving is from a series of four plates illustrating the Four Quarters of the World, of which only three are included in this album (Hollstein 568-571 [de Passe]). For another impression see 1868,0612.2096. For further comments, see 1942,0720.1.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1942
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1942,0720.1.16