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Schelte Adams Bolswert, Peter Paul Rubens, and others

The Destruction of the Idolatry

Flemish, 1605-1658

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Schelte Adams Bolswert, Peter Paul Rubens, and others

The Destruction of the Idolatry

The Destruction of the Idolatry

Flemish, 1605-1658

Physical Qualities Engraving, Image: 650 x 910 mm. (25 9/16 x 35 13/16 in.) Plate: 657 x 920 mm. (25 7/8 x 36 1/4 in.) Sheet: 685 x 950 mm. (26 15/16 x 37 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.2194
A pair to "Triumph of the Church by the Eucharist" (H.195)

Signed: 2

Inscribed: RECTO: in plate, across bottom in three columns, column one: "Cede DEO mala turba Deum; fassum ille Tonantem, / Aras ille Jovis subruit, ille tocos."; column two: "Ille popas mys tasque euertit et ethnica quicquid / Impiestas fic tae relligionis habet."; column three: "Tanta potest minimus specie, re maximus; orbis / Conditur, exili qui latet orbe DEVS."; in plate, at LL: "Pet. Paul. Rubbens pinxit. / S. a Bolswert Sculpsit."; in plate, at LR: "Nicolaus Lauwers excudit Antuerpiae / Cum Priuilegio."; in plate, beneath, across bottom: "SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI LEOPOLDO GVLIELMO, ARCHIDVCI AVSTRIAE, DVCI BVRGVNDIAE, BELGAR. ET BVRGNDIONVM GVBERNATORI, CHRISTIANAE PIETATIS ET INCRVENTI SACRIFICII CVLTORI AC PROPVGNATORI ACERRIMO PETR. HANNECART DEDICABAT."; in graphite, at lower center: "2991"; in graphite, at lower right: "hcrh/ms-"; "2 plates / xx2cl"

Artist

Schelte Adams Bolswert

1585–1658

Flemish, 1586-1659
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Artist

Peter Paul Rubens

1576–1639

Flemish, 1577-1640
Meet Peter Paul Rubens

Publisher

Nicolaes Lauwers

1599–1651

Dutch, 1600-1652
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