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Peter Scriverius

A work made of engraving and etching on cream laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of engraving and etching on cream laid paper.

Date:

1649

Artist:

Cornelis Visscher (Dutch, c. 1629-1658)
after Pieter Claesz. Soutman (Dutch, c. 1580–1657)

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Visscher (discard)

Title

Peter Scriverius

Place

Holland (Artist's nationality:)

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1649

Medium

Engraving and etching on cream laid paper

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."

Dimensions

Sheet; trimmed: 40 × 28.8 cm (15 3/4 × 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Horace S. Oakley

Reference Number

1923.1038

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