Nicolaes Braeu, Karel van Mander I, and others
Do Not Spend your Savings Too Soon
1586-1596
Scroll
- Artist: Nicolaes Braeu
- Artist and Designer: Karel van Mander I
- Formerly attributed to: Theodor Matham
- Previously attributed to workshop: Hendrick Goltzius
Do Not Spend your Savings Too Soon
1586-1596
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 239 × 174 mm. (9 7/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.3427
This is the first from a series of six engravings showing proverbs after Karel van Mander's designs (New Hollstein, Mander, nos. 95-100). Franco Estius created the Latin verses. The entire set of six plates of the Proverbs was much later (in or after the 1650s) acquired by Robert Pricke (his address is on the first plate, New Hollstein 95) who also added the English verses. For a complete set in the BM see 1854,0513.176-181; 1875,0213.316; 1875,0710.2845; 1817,0809.14 and 1992,0404.60-61.
A preparatory drawing is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 1980.121; New Hollstein appendix 2, 23).
Inscribed: Claghorn <987 1/2/4> on verso in graphite.
Markings: CM: Garrett WM: fragment
Previously attributed to workshop
Hendrick Goltzius
1557–1616
Dutch, 1558-1617
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