Hans Collaert II
Sculptura in Aes

ArtistFlemish, 1566–1628
ArtistFlemish, 1523–1605, active Italy
CultureFlemish
Titles
  • Sculptura in Aes
  • Engraving in Copper
  • Invention of Copperplate Engraving
Datec. 1590
MediumEngraving
DimensionsPlate: 8 × 10 3/4 in. (20.3 × 27.3 cm)
Sheet (sheet): 11 1/8 × 13 5/8 in. (28.3 × 34.6 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Frame: 18 5/16 × 22 7/16 × 1 3/16 in. (46.5 × 57 × 3 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1998.9.19
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance[Hill-Stone, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1998.

Exhibition History"Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe," Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 6–December 11, 2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, January 17–April 8, 2012.

"Renaissance Technology in Print," Hawn Gallery, Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, August 20–October 12, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscriptions: at lower left: Ioan. Stradanus inuent.; at lower right: Ioan. Galle excud.; below image at left: 19.; below image at center: SCVLPTVRA IN ÆS.; at bottom: Sculptor noua arte, bracteata in lamina Sculpit figuras, atque praelis imprimit.

Catalogue raisonnéNew Hollstein 341 (Stradanus)

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