Author: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708)
Title: [Antique print, etching, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1686] SERVATIUS GALLAEUS ROTERODAMENSIS BATAVUS. [Portrait of Servatius Gallaeus], published 1686/88, 1 p.
Description: [NL] Gallaeus was Waals predikant te Zierikzee en Haarlem en de auteur van het in 1688 verschenen boek over de sybillen. Zijn portret is in dit boek opgenomen in het voorwerk. Er bestaan twee staten van deze prent, genoemd bij Hollstein: I. met de woorden Opt. de Dei Eccles. merito past. Gall. Harlemi in de onderste tekstregel; II. deze woorden uitgewist, maar nog wel vaag zichtbaar. Landwehr (p.240) beschrijft de staten onjuist. Gesigneerd r.o.: posuit R. de Hooge 1686. Published in 'Servatius Gallaeus, Dissertationes de Sybillis earumque oraculis, apud Henricum & viduam Theodori Boom', 1688.[EN] Gallaeus was a Walloon preacher in Zierikzee and Haarlem and the author of the book published in 1688 concerning the sybille.His portrait is in this book included in the preparatory work. Two states of this print are known, as in Hollstein, the I state reads: 'Opt. de Dei Eccles. merito past. Gall. Harlemi' in the lower part; II. these words have been removed but are somehow visible. Signed lower right: 'posuit R. de Hooge 1686'. Published in 'Servatius Gallaeus, Dissertationes de Sybillis earumque oraculis, apud Henricum & viduam Theodori Boom', 1688. Etching on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 262 x 180 mm. State II/2. Landwehr 72; H 379, 2 staten; Muller portr. 1783; L p.240 RdH177.

Keywords: Old Master Prints|Romeyn de Hooghe|Theology|Utrecht