Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, bottom edge of image: “M. HEEMSK”; inscribed in plate, below image: “ET CVM FACTA ESSET HORA DISCVBIT & DUODECIM APOSTOLI CVM EO: ET AIT ILLIS. DESIDERIO / DESIDERAVI HOC PASCHA MANDVCARE VOBISCVM ANTEQVAM PATIAR.”; inscribed in plate below image, lower right corner: “N. de cleck exc.”
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2006
Materials & Techniques: Engraving on medium-weight, off-white laid paper. Watermark: Bunch of grapes watermark comparable to Briquet 13074, suggesting the paper is from Lyons
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 293 mm x 411 mm (11.54 in. x 16.18 in.). Sheet dimensions: 355 mm x 449 mm (13.98 in. x 17.68 in.).
Bibliography: New Hollstein (Heemskerck) 375 ii/iii; for more on the life of Bos, see Sune Schéle, Cornelis Bos: A Study of the Origins of the Netherlandish Grotesque (Stockholm: Almquist + Wiksell, 1965); see also Peter van der Coelen, Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 23, nos. 2/3 (1995), p. 142.
Associated People: Attributed to Cornelis Bos (Dutch (Flemish), ca. 1510 - before 1566), After Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498-1574)
Accession Number: 2006.7.1
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