Boreas, from "The Winds" series

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Boreas, from "The Winds" series
Boreas, from "The Winds" series
Artist/Maker (Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637)
Dateunknown
MediumEngraving
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (17.1 × 22.5 cm) Support: 9 1/2 × 10 3/4 in. (24.1 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object number1928.21
Not on view
DescriptionFrom a series of four prints of the winds. This image depicts Saturn and Jupiter with the people of the glacial regions: Scythi, Lappones; Samati, Nova Zembla with the cabin of the Dutch sailors from the expedition of 1596; and with Winter (Hymens).
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Exhibition History 2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector, and Naturalist," September 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (unnumbered cat.) [exhibited as unknown artist].



Provenance 1928: Hamilton College (James Library), by gift of Carnegie Corporation.
Markings Print of men and mountain scene on back of support with title(?) "Innsbruck, am"
Published References THE BEST KIND OF LIFE: EDWARD W. ROOT AS TEACHER, COLLECTOR, AND NATURALIST (exh. cat. Clinton, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 2007), 52.
Signature Signed in typeset at lower center: Crispinus Passae, Author, Invent, sculp. et Excudit [followed by a flourish]
Inscribed Inscribed in typeset at lower left: Asper ab axe ruit Boreas Saturnus in illa, / Cum Toue, sunt domini, parte rigente poli.; in typeset at lower right: Primus is in Scythiam cadit hunc mox Sarmata sétit. / Sauit in Arc Fois his glacialis hyems.; Signed in typeset at lower center: Crispinus Passae, Author, Invent, sculp. et Excudit [followed by a flourish]; in pencil on support at lower right: [underscored] 1173. / 10; in pencil on support at lower center, erased: [illegible]
Let Him Roar, Mr. Speaker, from "Harper's Weekly"
Let Him Roar, Mr. Speaker, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 6, 1880
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.502
Photograph by John Bentham
The Vendors and the Wind
Yun-Fei Ji
Date: 2014
Medium: Ink and watercolor on Xuan paper, mounted on silk
Object number: 2016.3.2
Photograph by John Bentham.
Wind, Maine
John Marin
Date: c. 1917 (dated 1916)
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 1962.4
Christ Nailed to the Cross from "Speculum Passionis Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi"
Christ Nailed to the Cross from "Speculum Passionis Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi"
Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, the elder
Date: First edition published 1507; second edition published 1519
Medium: Woodcut on paper
Object number: 1928.17
Innsbruck, Hofkirche: Theodorich Gruppe
Innsbruck, Hofkirche: Theodorich Gruppe
Peter Vischer the Elder
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.291
Photo by John Bentham.
Travailleurs couronnant la brêche du bastion 7 (Laborers Surmounting the Breach in Bastion 7), from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition et siege de Rome (Memories of Italy: the Expedition to and Siege of Rome)
Auguste Raffet
Date: 1850-60
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1928.16
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
Date: August, 1965
Medium: United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.291
A Wind is Rising and the Rivers Flow
A Wind is Rising and the Rivers Flow
Benton Murdoch Spruance
Date: 1945
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1986.16
Grand Ctang Granada 2000 ft above sea level
Grand Ctang Granada 2000 ft above sea level
Walford Thomas Bellairs, R.N.
Date: August 1850
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1995.27
Photograph by David Revette.
Platter depicting a map of the New World
Date: unknown
Medium: Ceramic with glaze
Object number: 1991.232
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Roman Denarius, M. Aemilius Scaurus
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 58 B.C.E
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.20
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Roman Denarius, L. Antestius Gragulus
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 137 B.C.E. - 127 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.22