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Italia

Johann Sadeler I and Hans von Aachen

Italia

1588-1598

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Italia

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 1946.112.6871
Italy; Allegory on War and Arts; landscape with a young woman seated at right in front of a tree with the coat-of-arms, holding a fruit and a cornucopia, five crowns lying in her lap; a young man wearing a laurel crown standing beside her at left, holding books and a viola da gamba; implements and tools lying in the foreground; an antique torso, a small oven, books, a croquet mallet and balls, tools, a large ball and an arm-guard ('bracciale' used to play an Italian ball game) in lower left corner; a money pouch, die, theatrical masks, a sword, a cornet, a shawm and books in lower right corner; musicians in right background; an army marching through an archway in left background (British Museum text)

Markings: CM: Claghorn on verso.

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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