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

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EngraverEngraved by Johannes Sadeler I (Netherlandish, 1550–1600)Netherlandish, 1550–1600

Artistafter Maarten de Vos (Netherlandish, c. 1532–1603)Netherlandish, c. 1532–1603

CultureNetherlandish

Titles

Mercurius (Mercury), from "Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci" (The Seven Planets)

Date1585

MediumEngraving on laid paper

DimensionsPlate: 9 5/16 × 9 9/16 in. (23.7 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet (trimmed): 9 3/8 × 9 11/16 in. (23.8 × 24.6 cm)
Board (2-ply): 16 1/4 x 12 in.

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.2016.7.7

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: MERCVRIVS

Lettered in matrix, right center bottom edge: Ioan. Sadler sculp. et excud. / M. de Vos figuravit.

Lettered below matrix in four columns: REGIONES / Armenia, Brabantia, Cyrene, Flandria, Hircania, / Longobardia, Marmarica, Martiana, Sardinia. / CIVITATES / Antverpia, Bamberga, Brugæ, Cesena, / Corduba, Londinum, Lovanium, Norimberga, / Rhegium, Turinum, Vercellæ, Uiterbium. /

Mercurius venator opum, qui celsa galero / Temperat astra, suos vultus in virgine figit / Sub Geminis, studia alta colens, artesq[ue] decoras. / Virgine sub casta felix terraq[ue] mariq[ue] /

Est Rhodos, Ioniæq[ue] vrbes, & Dorica rura, / Arcades antiqui, celebrataq[ue] Caria fama. / Ille decus linguæ faciet, tum pectora doctis / Artibus instituet, superat cursumq[ue] loquendi. /

REGIONES / Achaia, Assyria, Babylonia, Corinthia, Creta, / Croacia, Græcia, Mesopotamia, Rhemi. / CIVITATES / Aretium, Basilea, Brundusium, / Corinthus, Cumæ, Hierosolyma, / Lutetia, Papia, Rhodus, Segnia.

Verso: Stamp in black ink, lower left: GR / v.LEPELL / S. [encircled]
Verso: Stamp in black ink, lower right: KOPFERSTICH=SAMMLUNG DER KONIGL: MUSEEN [encircled, text around the edge with crest in the center]
Verso: Stamp in brown ink, lower right: *B* / Veräussert / * / K. K. [encircled]

Catalogue raisonnéHollstein 1386 (Maarten de Vos) Hollstein 523

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