Name: Antique Master Print-JONAH-FISH-WHALE-SEA-COAST-Galle-Heemskerck-1566
SKU: PICTURA-08155
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Antique Master Print-JONAH-FISH-WHALE-SEA-COAST-Galle-Heemskerck-1566

€275.00

‘IMMANIS IONAM TRIDVANVM HIC EVOMIT ALVI E LATEBRIS PISTRIX, POSTQUAM MANDATA RECOXIT’

– Jonah is expelled by a giant sea creature (whale-like) onto the shore after three days inside, fulfilling God’s command. God appears in the heavens above, gesturing toward Nineveh in the distance. Ships are seen sailing in the background at sunrise.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Coat of arms with 3 French lilies.

Sheet size: 32 x 26 cm (12.6 x 10.24 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 20.6 cm. (9.65 x 8.11 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. A few pinsize holes. Thin paper spots. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JONAH, WHALE, FISH, OLD TESTAMENT, BIBLE, ENGRAVING, FLEMISH PRINT, PHILIPS GALLE, HEEMSKERCK, REPENTANCE, NINEVEH | PCO-A56-25

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 2 from The Story of Jonah, engraved and published by Philips Galle after a design by Maarten van Heemskerck.

State: i.

Reference: H. 55?58; New Hollstein (Van Heemskerck) 180; New Hollstein (Galle) 76.

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.