About this artwork
Peter Scriverius, a renowned poet and scholar, provided verses to accompany Hendrik Goltzius’s portrait Frederik de Vries (1923.1068). Here Scriverius himself appears in the fifth portrait of a series of prints depicting four famous Dutchmen (Quatuor Personae), for which he wrote celebratory Latin poems. Dutch translations appear below several of these sheets, assuring a wider audience for the prints. Cornelis Visscher’s lively engravings feature illusionistic twists in the helmet, baton, and book that extend into the viewer’s space.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Visscher (discard)
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Title
- Peter Scriverius
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Place
- Holland (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1649
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Medium
- Engraving and etching on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, in image, lower left: "Corn. Vifcher fculpfit P. Soutmanns Dirigente."; Inscribed recto, in image, lower right: "P. Soutman pingebat, et excudebat Harlemi 1649. Cum Priuilegio."
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Dimensions
- Sheet; trimmed: 40 × 28.8 cm (15 3/4 × 11 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Horace S. Oakley
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Reference Number
- 1923.1038
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/9447/manifest.json