Print Description
(How do you perform your business God, so that all creatures taste your goodness.) Landscape with Drinking Jupiter. Cows and goats graze in a meadow landscape with a large tree on the left. In the foreground on the left two goats; among them Jupiter as a baby drinking milk from the udder of Amalthea. On the right, a pig. A group of three farmers are talking to each other. A flock of birds in the sky. Below the performance a line in Dutch. Allegory of the socio-economic situation in the Netherlands in 1644. Print from a series of five allegorical landscapes with proverbs.
Made by Hendrick Hondius (I) after own design.
Medium: Etching / Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 24.5 x 31.5 cm (9.65 x 12.4 inch). Image size: 15.7 x 20.6 cm. (6.18 x 8.11 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Edges slightly teared and some foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
FARMERS-CATTLE-SHE-GOAT-NANNY-GOAT-COMMERCIAL-TRANSACTIONS-POLITICAL-CARICATURES-SATIRES | EXPO-DUTCH/FLEMISH
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Hendrik Hondius I (born Hendrik de Hondt; 1573-c.1650) was a Flemish-born and trained engraver, cartographer, and publisher who settled in the Dutch Republic in 1597.
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