Print Description
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: small coat of arms with French lily.
Sheet size: 33 x 25.7 cm (12.99 x 10.12 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 20.8 cm. (9.65 x 8.19 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. A few pinsize holes. 2 Strips of paper on rear, for flattening. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
JONAH, GOURD, NINEVEH, DIVINE JUDGMENT, OLD TESTAMENT, PHILIPS GALLE, HEEMSKERCK, ENGRAVING, BIBLICAL PRINT | PCO-A56-27
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Plate 4 from The Story of Jonah, engraved and published by Philips Galle after a design by Maarten van Heemskerck.
State: i.
Reference: H. 55?58; NHD (Van Heemskerck) 182; NHD (Galle) 78.
Biography engraver: Philips Galle (1537-1612), prominent Antwerp engraver and publisher. A key figure in the print trade, known for religious and allegorical subjects after prominent Northern artists.
Biography artist: Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), Dutch Mannerist painter and draftsman. Trained in Haarlem, he traveled to Italy and returned with a style influenced by the antique and Raphael.
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