| Method | Copper engraving |
| Artist | Jan Collaert II after Maarten de Vos |
| Published | c. 1590-5 |
| Dimensions | Image 144 x 89 mm, Sheet 157 x 92 mm. |
| Notes |
Inscribed with two lines of Latin text below image. Plate 9 of a series of 20 from The Celebrated Women on the Old Testament. Jan Collaert II (c.1561 - c.1620) was a Flemish engraver active in Antwerp. He was the younger son of the engraver and publisher Hans Collaert I. From 1580 he worked alongside his brother Adriaen for Philips Galle (1537-1612), best known as a publisher of Old Master prints. Philips Galle (1537-1612) was a leading engraver and print dealer based in Antwerp. He was born in 1537 in Haarlem, and was possibly a pupil of Dirk Volkertsz, before moving to Antwerp where he worked in the workshop of Hieronymus Cock. After 1557 he started his own publishing and print business, for which he travelled extensively: in 1560-61 he visited the southern Netherland, France, Germany and Italy. After 1564 he settled in Antwerp, where he acquired citizenship in 1571. Galle was one of the most prolific publishers in Europe in the second half of the sixteenth century after Cock died in 1570. He was also executor of Cock's estate after his widow, Volckxen Diercx, died in 1600; he acquired many of Cock's plates and re-published them. Hollstein 231, New Hollstein 94.I. Condition: trimmed close to margins and within plate mark, but good condition. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £90.00 |
| Stock ID | 33923 |