The Triumph of Patience

1558

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Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, Maarten van Heemskerck, and others

The Triumph of Patience

1558

Physical Qualities Engraving and etching with transparent and opaque watercolor, heightened with gold and silver, Sheet: 267 x 332 mm. (10 1/2 x 13 1/16 in.) Plate: 210 x 260 mm. (8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund

Object Number 1998.6

Yellow border painted around image to give the illusion of a frame. Colors heightened with silver and gold paint. Sheet was originally bound into an album--evidence of binding on left edge of sheet and sheet is number in upper right corner.

Helmut Rumbler purchased the print in an antiquarian bookshop in Vienna.

Susan Dackerman, BMA, Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color, Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003; tour to The Saint Louis Art Museum, February 14- May 18, 2003.

BMA PDS Newsletter, Vol. XVII, No. 2/Spring 2000, p. 3.

Susan Dackerman. Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings, & Woodcuts. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, pages 64 and 165.

Susan Dackerman, "A Collector for All of Us." Newsletter of The Print & Drawing Society of The Baltimore Museum of Art (Fall 2004), illus. p. 13.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: lower left in plate: "MH inven // H. Cock excud"; lower right in plate: "DVC fecit"; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: "8"; by later hand, upper right in black ink: "101"

Markings: none - not visible