Jan Harmensz. Muller, Bartholomeus Spranger, Gerard Valck
Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies Against the Turks
1599
Scroll
Jan Harmensz. Muller, Bartholomeus Spranger, Gerard Valck
Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies Against the Turks
1599
Physical Qualities
Engraving on two sheets, Sheet (overall): 730 × 519 mm. (28 3/4 × 20 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 369 × 519 mm. (14 1/2 × 20 7/16 in.)
Plate: 356 × 507 mm. (14 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.1817b
An engraving on two sheets of paper, printed from two plates. This is the bottom plate; see also 1984.81.1817a. Dedicated to Matthias of Austria.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
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Heller, Joseph. Zusätze zu Adam Bartsch's Le Peintre Graveur (Bamberg: J. G. Sickmüller, 1844): pp. 95-96.
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von Wurzbach, Alfred. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet (Vienna: Halm und Goldmann, 1906-1911): vol. II, pp. 204-205.
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Filedt Kok, Jan Piet, Erik Hinterding, Jan van der Waals. "Jan Harmensz. Muller as printmaker, part III, catalogue." Print quarterly XII, no.1 (March 1995): 3-29. [MWAAS].
Filedt Kok, Jan Piet (compiler), Harriet Stroomberg (compiler), Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten (ed.), Christiaan Schuckman (ed.). "The Muller Dynasty" in Hollstein, F. W. H. The new Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive; Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 1999): vol. [7], pt. 2, pp. 7-258; vol. [7], pt. 3, pp. 15-334. [MH-FA].
Weigel, Rudolph. Suppléments au peintre-graveur de Adam Bartsch (Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1843): pp. 138-145.
Heller, Joseph. Zusätze zu Adam Bartsch's Le Peintre Graveur (Bamberg: J. G. Sickmüller, 1844): pp. 95-96.
Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Supplemente zu den Handbüchern der Kupferstichkunde (Stuttgart: Verlag von W. Spelmann, 1881): vol. II, pp. 244 [NYPL].
von Wurzbach, Alfred. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet (Vienna: Halm und Goldmann, 1906-1911): vol. II, pp. 204-205.
Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1949 - ongoing 2000): vol. XIV, pp. 105-115.
Bartsch, Adam, et al. The Illustrated Bartsch (New York: Abaris Books, 1978 - ongoing 2001): vol. 4, pp. 444-520 [MH-FA].
Filedt Kok, Jan Piet, Erik Hinterding, Jan van der Waals. "Jan Harmensz. Muller as printmaker, part III, catalogue." Print quarterly XII, no.1 (March 1995): 3-29. [MWAAS].
Filedt Kok, Jan Piet (compiler), Harriet Stroomberg (compiler), Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten (ed.), Christiaan Schuckman (ed.). "The Muller Dynasty" in Hollstein, F. W. H. The new Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive; Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 1999): vol. [7], pt. 2, pp. 7-258; vol. [7], pt. 3, pp. 15-334. [MH-FA].
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "B. Sprangers inuent. / Ioan. Muller.Sculp."; below image, lower center, in plate two line dedication in Latin beginning "Serenissimo Principi Domino [...]"; below image and dedication, lower margin, in plate 12 lines of Latin in 4 columns, in plate, beginning "En Bellona ciet [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "G. Valck ex."
Markings: CM: Claghorn