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Plate 1 from the Proverbs

Maker

(artist)
1498-1574

(engraver)
1537-1612

(publisher)
1600-1676

Title

Plate 1 from the Proverbs

Date of Production

1674

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 24.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2957.6

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner within image, black ink: "FORTVNA HOMINIS PIGRI. // Per agrum hominis pigri transivi et per vineam viri // stulti: et ecce totum repleverant urticae, et operuerant supersi- // ciem ejus spinae, et maceria lapidum destructa erat. Prov.24.30."; lower centre edge within image, black ink: "Salomon // Piger // Vsquequa piger dormies quando // consurges e somma tuo. Prov. 6.9. // Prouerb. 6. et. z4. // I. // PGalle sculpsit. // Ioan Galle excudit."; lower centre edge, black ink: "DOLIO VT INDORMIT DE SES, STERTIT QVE SVPINVS, // NEC MALE CONSVLTVM CVRA ILLVM TANGIT AGELLI, // DEFLVIT INCVLTA ET SPEM VINEA FALLIT HERILEM // ET LOLIVM INFELIX PRO FRVGIBVS OBSIDET ARVA". Mount, Recto: lower left edge, black print: "Theatrum Biblicum, 1674. // M. van HEEMSKERK".

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