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Germania

Johann Sadeler I and Hans von Aachen

Germania

1588-1598

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Germania

1588-1598

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 200 × 257 mm. (7 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.6870
Germany; Allegory on Craft and War; landscape with a young woman as Ceres seated at left in front of a tree with the coat-of-arms, with corn in her hair, holding a sceptre and a crown; a young man as Bacchus standing beside her at right, offering her a pineapple cup and a spear with vines; tools and weaponry lying in the foreground; a copper-plate and two burin needles, a kettle on a fire, a cart, a pair of gloves, unidentified implements and two swords in lower left corner; metal vessels, a small violin (rebec) and a flute with a flute-case at centre; armoury, a halberd, a gun, a cannon and a clock in lower right corner; a printing press and a marching army in right background; peasants drinking at a village tavern in left background (British Museum text)

Markings: CM: Claghorn on verso. WM: anchor in cartouche with trefoil.

Artist

Johann Sadeler I

1549–1599

Flemish, 1550-1600
Meet Johann Sadeler I

Artist

Hans von Aachen

1551–1614

German, 1552-1615
Meet Hans von Aachen

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