Schelte Adams Bolswert, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolaes Lauwers
The Destruction of the Idolatry
Flemish, 1605-1658
Schelte Adams Bolswert, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolaes Lauwers
The Destruction of the Idolatry
Flemish, 1605-1658
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"