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Artist/Maker
Crispijn de Passe, the elder
(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).
Collections
Additional Details
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].
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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