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Esaias van de Velde I

Fishermen before the Fortifications

1614-1615

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Esaias van de Velde I

Fishermen before the Fortifications

1614-1615

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 97 × 188 mm. (3 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.) Image: 88 × 178 mm. (3 7/16 × 7 in.) Plate: 89 × 180 mm. (3 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1993.58
George S. Keyes. 'Esaias van den Velde: 1587-1630' Davaco Publishers. Catalogue E17.
Clifford S. Ackley. 'Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt,' Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981. #39.
Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etching, Engravings & Woodcuts, vol.XXXII, compiled by Ger Luijten The Netherlands, 1988.

Inscribed: FACE: in plate, UL corner, 'E.V. VELDE. fecit./ I.P. Beerenrecht. excud.'; below image, C, (brown ink), 'Schansen op't Scheldt.'. VERSO: (brown ink, as on face), LRQ (illegible, but something like), 'O S N' (and two graphite scribbles),

Markings: none

Artist

Esaias van de Velde I

1586–1629

Dutch, 1587-1630
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