Author: Andries Jacobsz. Stock (1562/92-after 1648) after Jan Wildens (1584/86-1653) engraved with Hendrick Hondius (1573-ca. 1649) and Jacob Matham (1571-1631)
Title: Antique print, engraving | Allegory of the month of June (Allegorie van de maand Juni), published 1614, 1 p.
Description: Allegory of the month of June. Beautiful landscape with farmers shaving their flock of sheep. Two shepherds in the left foreground are washing the animals in the river. Towards the right, beyond a large tree, a shepherd on the horse leads the animals back on the fields.Signed blow on the right: 'Iohan Wild. Invent And Stockus sculpsit Hhondius excudit'. Four lines of Latin text below: 'Junius, en, cernens fegetis... nos Ira potes' in center: 'IUNIUS'.Interestingly, on the verso, are traces of another impression that had still wet ink when our plate was stocked on the top of the previous.Numbered on the bottom left corner: 6. Engraving on laid paper, trimmed to plate; total: 289 x 423 mm; state II/4; watermark with three lilies in shield; Hollstein (Hondius) not documented but other plates of the set nr. 72-75. Also Orenstein, Nadine Monica: Hendrick Hondius and the business of prints in seventeenth-century Holland, p. 186, cat.nr. 263-266. The paper is sometimes thinner, yet very beautiful and rare impression.
Keywords: Agriculture|Allegories|Animals|Crafts|Farm|Farmers|Landscapes|Latin|Old Master Prints
Title: Antique print, engraving | Allegory of the month of June (Allegorie van de maand Juni), published 1614, 1 p.
Description: Allegory of the month of June. Beautiful landscape with farmers shaving their flock of sheep. Two shepherds in the left foreground are washing the animals in the river. Towards the right, beyond a large tree, a shepherd on the horse leads the animals back on the fields.Signed blow on the right: 'Iohan Wild. Invent And Stockus sculpsit Hhondius excudit'. Four lines of Latin text below: 'Junius, en, cernens fegetis... nos Ira potes' in center: 'IUNIUS'.Interestingly, on the verso, are traces of another impression that had still wet ink when our plate was stocked on the top of the previous.Numbered on the bottom left corner: 6. Engraving on laid paper, trimmed to plate; total: 289 x 423 mm; state II/4; watermark with three lilies in shield; Hollstein (Hondius) not documented but other plates of the set nr. 72-75. Also Orenstein, Nadine Monica: Hendrick Hondius and the business of prints in seventeenth-century Holland, p. 186, cat.nr. 263-266. The paper is sometimes thinner, yet very beautiful and rare impression.
Keywords: Agriculture|Allegories|Animals|Crafts|Farm|Farmers|Landscapes|Latin|Old Master Prints
Price: EUR 1512.50 = appr. US$ 1643.86 Seller: Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur
- Book number: 65034
- Book number: 65034