Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 195 × 145 mm. (7 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
Plate: 170 × 130 mm. (6 11/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Image: 145 × 130 mm. (5 11/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4404
Willem de Groot (1597-1662) was a jurist, mayor of Delft and curator of the University of Leiden.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: below image: "Astreae Phaebiq decus, sic nectare dio / Plena minor natu Grotius ora tulit / Sive ageret conspecta foro facundia causas / Laus prior in toto vixerat ulla foro / Otia seu paean curisq vacantia ferrent / Tempora mirata esthos quoq Fama sonos / Cum fratre ambigua poterat contendere palma / Sed major pietas ambitione fuit" along bottom from left to right: "A. Hanneman pinxit / H. Barij Sculp / Nic Heinsius cecinit". Verso: handwritten in graphite: "Willem de Groot / Muller Catal. no. 2053a / de Wit / [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Joseph-Guillaume-Jean Camberlyn (L. 514)
