Print Description
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: small coat of arms with french lily.
Sheet size: 33 x 26 cm (12.99 x 10.24 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 20.7 cm. (9.65 x 8.15 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Remains of paper on rear from previous carrier. Thin paper spot. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
JONAH, NINEVEH, REPENTANCE, PROPHECY, BIBLE PRINT, HEEMSKERCK, PHILIPS GALLE, 16TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING, OLD TESTAMENT | PCO-A56-26
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Plate 3 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.
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