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Wendel Dietterlin
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Wendelin Dietterlin and Balthasar Caymox

Wendel Dietterlin

1569

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Wendel Dietterlin

1569

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 250 × 185 mm. (9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.4460

Inscribed: Recto: in plate: monogram WD at upper center; Lettered in oval frame: 'WEMDELINUS DIETTERLIN PICTOR ARGENTINENSIS OBYT Ao MDIC AETAT: IL'; Eight lines of verse below the portrait: 'Dietterline tuum omen / Pingere crena nequir: fingere uena tremit / Dictis Aspicitur Lectores lectus Apelles / Non Solus, Solida Sed Solidatus ope est / Ingenio fabrica pictura moribus arte / Præditus excellens Summus honorus ouans / Historias lignum facies scra dogmata terrain . Voluit construxit Sculptsit amauit ablt / V. Wyn.P.'

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wendelin Dietterlin

1549–1598

German, 1550-1599
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Publisher

Balthasar Caymox

1560–1634

Flemish, 1561 - 1635
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