Name: Antique Print-WILLIAM I OF ORANGE-Tanje-c.1770
SKU: PCO-25716
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Antique Print-WILLIAM I OF ORANGE-Tanje-c.1770

€95.00

‘WILLEM DE I. PRINS VAN ORANJE, ENZ. ENZ. ENZ.? – ‘G. SIBELIUS DEL. ET SCULP.? – ‘SOCIET. BIBLIOPOL. ROTEROD. EXCUD.? – (BANNER:) ‘LIBERTAS?’

– Oval portrait of William I of Orange (William the Silent) within an ornamental cartouche. He wears a ruff and fur-trimmed garment. Surrounding attributes include a liberty cap and banner inscribed ‘Libertas,’ arms and armour, a hunting horn, laurel wreath, and a vignette battle scene below; the coat of arms appears beneath the portrait.

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Description

Medium: Etching and engraving (line engraving with etching), printed in black ink on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 13.3 x 20.7 cm (5.24 x 8.15 inch). Image size: 12.5 x 20 cm. (4.92 x 7.87 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

WILLIAM I OF ORANGE, WILLEM DE ZWIJGER, PRINCE OF ORANGE, DUTCH REVOLT, GERARD SIBELIUS, 18TH CENTURY ENGRAVING, LIBERTAS, DUTCH HISTORY, OVAL PORTRAIT | PCO-E15-2-39

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by the Societas Bibliopolorum Rotterodamensis (Rotterdam).

Biography engraver: Pieter Tanje (1706-1761) was a Dutch engraver, etcher and draughtsman active in Amsterdam. He became one of the most prominent portrait engravers in the Dutch Republic during the mid-18th century. Tanj? combined delicate burin work with etching, producing refined portraits after contemporary painters and designers.