[Rocky landscape with fable of the Ass and the Pig]
Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600
Stevens, Pieter, c.1567-after 1624
graphic
Ioa. Sadeler scalps. Venetijs
Venice
[1595 -1600]
1 print : etching and engraving on sheet 203 x 275 mm (trimmed).
paper
Latin
Italy
In lower left: "Cū priuil. Sūs Pontif. et Sac. Caes. M.tis"; In lower right: "Ioa. Sadeler scalps. Venetijs Petrus Stephani figurauit.".
The prints are trimmed and pasted into volume Stampe.V.110 ("STAMPE DI BRIL ED ALTR"), that has a dimension of 709 x 488 x 43 mm.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Lugt 240c
For more information, see Rijksmuseum, collection online (inv. nr. RP-P-1943-644); In the lower margin was an inscription of the Aesop fable about the Ass and the Pig; Privilege in lower left, granted by Church and emperor. Lower margin is trimmed; White line from upper centre to lower centre.
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Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Fondo antico
Stampe.V.110(69)
Link to album description
Stampe.V.110
Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish), Vol. 21, 1980, p. 180, n. 585; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish), Vol. 22, 1980, p. 161, n. 585.
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