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Fire

Jan VAN DE VELDE II, Willem BUYTEWECH (after)
Fire
(Ignis)
 (1622)
plate 3 from the Four elements series

Medium
engraving and etching

Measurements
17.2 × 28.8 cm (image) 19.0 × 29.5 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 20 iii/v

Edition
3rd of 5 states

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Ignis alit mundrum Princeps et viribus acer / Orbis fræna suo temperat arbitrio.
printed in ink l.c.: IGNIS
printed in ink l.c.r.: Lucida flammifero locat ignis sydera Cælo, / Per quæ fæcundo cuncta calore fovet.
printed in ink l.r.: F. V. Velde. fec / WB (monogram) 3

Accession Number
1278.188.3-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Another Work Human Figures

Subjects (specific)
cannons (artillery) Fire (allegorical character) Four Elements (allegorical characters) night sky smoke (material) stars (extraterrestrial bodies) wagons (cargo vehicles)

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Four elements

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Air

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Earth

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Water

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