Unknown master, after Sadeler, Raphael I (1560-1632) and Sadeler, Johannes I (1550-1600), after Vos, Maarten de (1532-1603)
[M]ARTIVS ... (SYLVAE SACRAE MONUMENTA... ANACHORETARUM)
Plate nr. 10 from the serie SYLVAE SACRAE MONUMENTA ... ANACHORETAUM published by Johannes I and Raphael I Sadeler in 1594. This plate is in reverse and slighly wider than the original. Possibly by Charles van Boeckel (fl. 1597-1617) [Hollstein de Vos, 1004a], or by Marcus Christoph Sadeler (1614-1650), Giacomo Piccini (ca. 1617- ca.1669) and Giovanni Merlo (17th cent.) from the first half of the seventeenth century [Hollstein de Vos, 1004f]. Besides the latin verses beneath the picture no other signatures are to be found on the plate. Lettered under the picture: '[M]ARTIVS Aruvernae pater & contemptor honoris / Permutat sacram sponte ligone pedum. / Atass sibi caueam fodit in qua Vivere possit / Immo mori cui mors nil nisi vita fuit'; plate is numbered '10'.l Engraving on paper; platemark: 170 x 202 mm, total: 213 x 265. Broad margins, close to the top margin two holes, probably for it was bound with oher plates. PB01SS(Martius-Martinus)

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