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Truth is the Daughter of Time

Jan Collaert II, Jan van der Straet, and others

Truth is the Daughter of Time

1589-1611

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Truth is the Daughter of Time

1589-1611

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 252 × 184 mm. (9 15/16 × 7 1/4 in.) Plate: 250 × 181 mm. (9 13/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.847
Timothy Riggs, "Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640," Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, May 6-June 27, 1993, and Ackland Art Museum, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Aug. 15-Sept. 26, 1993, cat 52.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left and right, in plate "VERITAS TEMPORIS FILIA."; in image, lower left, in plate "'Phili. Galle excud:"; in image, lower right, in plate "Iohann: Strada: inuen: Iohann: Collaert. sculpt."; in image, lower center in rectangle, in plate four lines in Latin beginning "Quae dudian latuit tenebris [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "828"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Jan Collaert II

1560–1619

Flemish, 1561 - 1620
Meet Jan Collaert II

Artist

Jan van der Straet

1522–1604

Flemish, 1523-1605
Meet Jan van der Straet

Publisher

Philips Galle

1536–1611

Flemish, 1537-1612
Meet Philips Galle

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