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]
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