Name: Antique Master Print-JONAH-STORM-SAILORS-SHIP-GOD-Galle-Heemskerck-1566
SKU: PICTURA-08153
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Antique Master Print-JONAH-STORM-SAILORS-SHIP-GOD-Galle-Heemskerck-1566

€275.00

‘ECCE AMITHAONIDEM PROFVGVM, IVSSIS QVE REBELLEM, IN MARE PR?CIPITEM DEVOLVIT NAVTICA TVRBA’

– Jonah, attempting to flee from God’s command, is cast into the stormy sea by sailors. God appears in the heavens above the tempest, and ships struggle against the waves in the distance.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 33.2 x 25.7 cm (13.07 x 10.12 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 20.8 cm. (9.65 x 8.19 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. A few wrmholes in left margin. Tear at left margin, backed. Tear at bottom middle. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JONAH, OLD TESTAMENT, BIBLICAL STORY, STORM, SHIP, SEA, TEMPEST, GOD, PHILIPS GALLE, MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK | PCO-A56-25

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 1 from The Story of Jonah, engraved and published by Philips Galle after a design by Maarten van Heemskerck.

Reference: H. 55-58; New Hollstein (Heemskerck) 179; New Hollstein (Galle) 75.

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.