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Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies Against the Turks

Jan Harmensz. Muller, Bartholomeus Spranger, Gerard Valck

Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies Against the Turks

1599

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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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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

Artist

Jan Harmensz. Muller

Dutch, 1571-1628
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Artist

Bartholomeus Spranger

Flemish, 1546-1611
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Publisher

Gerard Valck

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726
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