Fides
Maker
(artist)
1532-1603
(printmaker)
1560-1618
(publisher)
1537-1612
1532-1603
(printmaker)
1560-1618
(publisher)
1537-1612
Title
Fides
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 29.9 cm
Width: 29.9 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2504
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
figre male female
Fidelity
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper centre, within image: “TRIVM HVMANI GENERIS ORDINVM SIVE STATVVM, / ECCLESIASTICI VIDELICET, REGII, ET PLEBII, / GRAPHICA DELINIATIO. //”; within image: “VERITAS / FIDES //”; lower right, within image: “en marten de Vos inuen. Adrian Collaert sculp. Philip. Galle [undecipherable] //”; lower margin: “Spargere probata Veritatis femina, Prudentium cum simplicai modestia, Vulgo sacramenta explicare mystica, I / Deo sacrificare, ac pias fundere preces; Serpentium instar : columbarium sequi; ECCLESIASTICI officia sunt ordinis. / AD AMPLISS. ET REVERENDISS DOMINVM D. IOANNEM SARACENVM, DIVI VEDASTI APVD ATREBATES ABBATEM MERITISSVM, / PHILIPPVS GALLAEVS DEICABAT, //”.
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