Print Description
Attractive engraved plate showing a shepherd and a woman with a flock of sheep, as well as several travellers. Situated in a sunny, mountainous landscape, with a goat and cow as well. Rare.
Made by Johannes Visscher after Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem.
Medium: engraving / etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 51.5 x 40 cm (20.28 x 15.75 inch). Image size: 44.5 x 33 cm. (17.52 x 12.99 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Original middle fold, two repaired small tears in the lower margin (not affecting image), and a repaired tear in the left margin (a little into the image). General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
SHEPERD-SHEEP-HORSE-GOAT | DP-B1-07
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published in Amsterdam by Frederick de Wit, ca. 1680. The plate itself is not dated, so no definitive date can be given. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Johannes / Jan Visscher after Nicolaes Berghem.
Reference: Ref: *Hollstein 45.
Biography engraver: Johannes / Jan Visscher (Dutch 1636-c.1692).
Biography artist: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem / Berghem (1620-1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
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