‘QUI DECIPIT VICISSIM DECIPITUR | CORNELIS DANCKERTS EXCUDIT.’

– An allegorical landscape with castles, villages, and hilly terrain. In the foreground, two figures are engaged in dialogue, possibly an allegory of deceit, referring to the Latin motto.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 40 x 51 cm (15.75 x 20.08 inch). Image size: 40 x 51 cm. (15.75 x 20.08 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Original middle fold as published. Paper separation along the middle fold, backed. Several small tears in the paper edges, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ALLEGORY, LANDSCAPE, CASTLES, CORNELIS DANCKERTS, 17TH CENTURY, DECEIT, MORAL, DUTCH PRINTS | PCO-B2-44

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Cornelis Danckerts I in Amsterdam.

Biography engraver: Cornelis Danckerts I (1603-1656) was a Dutch engraver, printer, and publisher. Active in Amsterdam from around 1631. His publishing house grew into a well-known cartographic family business run by his descendants.