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Joost van den Vondel

Joost van den Vondel
(c. 1643)
from a series of Scholar portraits, published by Cornelis Danckerts, Amsterdam (c. 1643)

Medium
engraving

Measurements
24.5 × 19.3 cm (image) 27.6 × 19.3 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 83 ii/iv

Edition
2nd of 4 states

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: I. Sandrart / Delineavit. / Theod. Matham Sculp.
printed in ink l.c.: IOOST VANDE VONDEL. / Sandrart heeft VONDEL dus naer ‘taenzicht uitgedrucht, / Niet zÿn gedachten; want de waren wech gerucht, / Verslingert op d’aeloude en bloende treurtooneelen, / Om ernstigh af te zien, wat rol d’uitheemschen spelen. / Vint niemants brein in bloet noch gal noch tranen smaeck, / Hy leeft in treurdicht. ay, wergun hem dat vermaeck.

Accession Number
490-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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