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Portrait of Joost van den Vondel


Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 20.7 x 15.7 cm (8 1/8 x 6 3/16 in.)
Platemark: 18.2 x 14 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Francis Jay Underhill
Accession Number38.1760
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Wurzbach 64; Hollstein 76, ii
Signed signed
Marks Verso, c.: Lugt 282 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and in graphite: 34 823
Verso, c: (and bottom right, partial): unidentified collector's mark (initials encircled)
InscriptionsIn plate, in image: AEtat LXXXIV

In plate, below image: De gryze Vondel, die door trerstyl, heldentoon Door lier en heekeldicht, met d'oudtheit om de kroon Des lauwers streedt, voor wien wat Neerduitsch Schryst moetzwichten Vertoont zich in dees print, maar leest in zyn gedichten.

In grahpite, verso, l.l.: de V Bary sc

ProvenanceStamp of Francis Jay Underhill (not in Lugt); Francis Jay Underhill, NY by bequest to MFA 12/8/1938