Johannes Sadeler I
Venus, from "Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci" (The Seven Planets)

ArtistNetherlandish, c. 1532–1603
CultureNetherlandish
Titles
  • Venus, from "Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci" (The Seven Planets)
Date1585
MediumEngraving on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 9 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (23.5 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet (trimmed): 9 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (23.8 × 24.8 cm)
Board (2-ply): 16 1/4 x 12 in.
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2016.7.6
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
217 Blaffer Galleries
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ProvenanceFriedrich Wilhelm Graf von Lepel, 1755–1826; Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, L. 1606, with deaccession stamp; August Laube Buch- under Kunstantiquariat, Zürich; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Titled in matrix, top center: VENVS

Lettered in matrix, left center bottom edge: Ioan. Sadler sculp. et excud.

Lettered in matrix, right center bottom edge: M. de Vos figura.

Lettered below matrix in four columns: REGIONES / Aethiopia, Alsatia, Austria, Caspia, Delphinatum, / Livonia, Sabaudia, Seres, Thebæ, Trogloditæ. / CIVITATES / Arelatum, Argentina, Caieta, Lauda, Placentia, / Spira, Suesa, Venetia, Vienna, Ulyspona. /

At fecunda Venus cunctarum semina rerum / Possidet, æquatæ iusto sub pondere Libræ, / Dum ferus à Diuæ Taurus cornicibus hæret. / Arua tenet Thebana, Papho vicinaq[ue] Cypro /

Littora, palmiferos Arabas, terrasq[ue] ferentes / Delitias, variæq[ue] novos radicis odores. / Laudis amore auidas mentes dat, corpora tarda, / Et graciles calamos, modulataq[ue] vocibus ora. /

REGIONES / Aha, Cyprus, Franconia, Helvetia, Lotharin= / gia, Media, Persia, Polonia, Ruscia, Svetia. / CIVITATES / Bononia, Borgum, Bostna, Lipsia, / Mantua, Senæ, Tarentum.
Verso: Stamp in black ink, lower center right: GR / v.LEPELL / S. [encircled]
Verso: Stamp in black ink, lower center left: KOPFERSTICH=SAMMLUNG DER KONIGL: MUSEEN [encircled, text around the edge with crest in the center]
Verso: Stamp in brown ink, lower center left: *B* / Veräussert / * / K. K. [encircled]
Catalogue raisonnéHollstein 1385 (Maarten de Vos) Hollstein 522

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