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An Academy of Fine Arts
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An Academy of Fine Arts
Engraved by: Cornelis Cort (Netherlandish, 1533–1578)
Designed by: Johannes Stradanus (Netherlandish, 1523–1605)
Designed by: Johannes Stradanus (Netherlandish, 1523–1605)
1578
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 44.3 x 30.2 cm (17 7/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 45.7 x 30.9 cm (18 x 12 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 45.7 x 30.9 cm (18 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Francis Jay Underhill Fund
Accession Number59.664
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 218; Sellink (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Cort) 210 (I/II)
State
I/II
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, lower center, on footstool: Cornelius Cort fecit./1578
Marks
Recto, lower left, collector's stamp in black ink: G [not identified]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper right: PICTVRA.; center: STATV ARIA.; center left: ANATOMIA; center, under horse: SCVLPTVRA; center right, on book: ARCHITECTVRA.; center right, on sheet of paper: Typorum encorum/INCISORIA; lower center, on bench: Tyrones pi/cturæ.; in plate, in lower margin left to right: Ill.mo et Ex.mo D[omi]no. Iocobo Boncompagno Arcis Prefæcto, ingenior, ac industriæ fautori, Artiu[m] nobiliu[m] praxim, a Io[anni] Strade[n]si Belga artificiosè expressa[m], Laureti[us] Vaccarius D. D. Romæ Anno 1578
ProvenanceBy 1959, P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., Ltd., (dealer), London; October 8, 1959, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 8, 1959)