Print Description
Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 48 x 40.3 cm (18.9 x 15.87 inch). Image size: 42 x 34.7 cm. (16.54 x 13.66 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Minor creasing, foxing and soiling. Original folding as issues with some paper serparation at the fold ends. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BIBLE-GENESIS-GREAT FLOOD-NOAH-ARK-ELEPHANT | BOX-DE HONDT-1
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From De Hondt’s ‘Taferelen der voornaamste geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament’, published in 1728 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Text pages included.
Biography engraver: Gilliam van der Gouwen, first name also transcribed as Guilliam and Willem (ca. 1657, Antwerp — buried on 15 March 1716, Amsterdam) was a Flemish engraver who spent most of his active career in the Dutch Republic. He is known for his reproductive engravin.
Biography artist: Gerard Hoet, the elder (1648-1733) was a Dutch history and genre painter and engraver from Zaltbommel. Pieter de Hondt, Dutch publisher and bookseller (1696–1764).
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