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Title

First era: Natural Law

Engraver

Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619

Inventor

Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603

Printer/Publisher

Baltens, Peeter, 1527-1584

Other personalities

[Haecht, Willem van, c.1527-c.1583]

Medium

print

Edition/Print Statement

Edition Statement 1ed. ; Print Statement2

Name of publisher

P. Baltens excu

Place of publication

Antwerp]

Date of publication

[before 1580]

Physical description

1 print : engraving on sheet 230 x 285 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)

Materials

paper

Language

Dutch; Latin; French

Country

[Netherlands]

Inscriptions

At upper centre: "LEX NATVRE"; at upper right on tree: "PRIMA AETAS"; at lower left: "M. D. VOS. IN"; and numbered: "1"; at lower centre: "P. Baltens excu"; at lower right: "Cu,. preuil"; in lower margin three columns of text in respectively Dutch, Latin and French: "De Reden een … attendant la promesse".

Annotations

Pr. 1 of: [Wierix, Jeronimus], The three laws governing the three ages of the world, 20.A.II.114/36-37

Collectors' marks

Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559

Conservation

good

Topical Term

Allegories
Law

Location

Biblioteca Casanatense

Fondo Stampe e Disegni

20.A.II.114/37

Series

Link to mother card

Series' component

20.A.II.114/36-37

Album

Link to album description

Album's component

20.A.II.114

Bibliography

Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, Rotterdam 2004, vol. LXVI, p. 146, 149, n. 1803

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Collectors' marks url

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