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Adriaen Collaert and Maarten de Vos

America

1594-1604

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America

1594-1604

Physical Qualities Engraving, Mount: 206 × 255 mm. (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.) Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 206 × 255 mm. (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.805
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, BMA, "Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art," February 9 - July 27, 2025.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "M. de Vos inuent"; below image, lower margin, in plate, four lines of text in Latin, in two columns "Illa quidem nostris dudum non cognita terris, / Facta brevi auriferis late celebrrima venis / Visceribus scelerata suis humana recondens, / Viscera feralem praefendit AMERICA clavam."

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Adriaen Collaert

1559–1617

Flemish, c. 1560-1618
Meet Adriaen Collaert

Artist

Maarten de Vos

1531–1602

Flemish, 1532-1603
Meet Maarten de Vos

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