Name: Antique Print-VIRGO DORDRACENA-DORDRECHT-VIRGIN-van Queborn-Venne-1637
SKU: PCO-27375
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Antique Print-VIRGO DORDRACENA-DORDRECHT-VIRGIN-van Queborn-Venne-1637

€75.00

‘VIRGO DORDRACENA.’

– Original antique print showing the Virgin of Dordrecht (‘Virgo Dordracena’) at centre, holding palm leaves and books falling from her lap, surrounded by putti holding and reading books, two others holding a laurel above her head; view of Dordrecht below.

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Description

Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 18 x 23.5 cm (7.09 x 9.25 inch). Image size: 14.7 x 19 cm. (5.79 x 7.48 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Attached to carrier sheet. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VIRGO DORDRACENA-DORDRECHT-VIRGIN-NETHERLANDS | PCOA55-16

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This original antique frontispiece was published in the second volume of Jacob Cats “S Werelts Begin, Midden, Eynde”, The Netherlands 1637.

Biography engraver: Crispijn van Queborn (1604-1652), Dutch painter/draughtsman; publisher/printer; printmaker.

Biography artist: Adriaen van der Venne (1589-1662) was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier.