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Group of five prints on the theme of love


The Rape of Europa
The Disgracers (Icarus, Phaeton, Tantalus)
Perseus and Andromeda
Workshop of: Jacob (Jacques) de Gheyn, III (Dutch, about 1596–about 1644)
Attributed to: Zacharias Dolendo (Dutch, 1561–about 1604)
After: Karel van Mander (Netherlandish, 1548–1606)
After: Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (Dutch, 1562–1638)
about 1600
Place of Publication: Netherlands

Medium/Technique Group of five engravings
Dimensions Overall: 25.8 x 18.6 x 2 cm (10 3/16 x 7 5/16 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wick
Accession Number58.1367.4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Netherlands: about 1600

Catalogue Raisonné New Hollstein, The de Gheyn Family, Pt. I, p. 211, no. 142 (Dolendo); Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 3 (Commentary), nos. 0301.258-60 (Cornelisz. van Haarlem)
Description(Netherlands: about 1600); five leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped black morocco binding with initials HS and L (Orrock & Son). BOUND with 58.1367.1-3, .5-.7.

Miscellaneous engravings with themes of mythological loves, bound in album of lover's emblems.

A group of five prints depicting mythological lovers, bound in album of love emblems. The first is the Rape of Europa after Karel van Mander; the next three are Icarus, Phaeton, and Tantalus from a set of copies (published by I. Honervogt) of the Goltzius prints after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem; the fifth is a later print of Perseus and Andromeda published by "Le Blond," probably a member of the 17th-century Parisian print publishing family.

BOUND with 58.1367.1-3, .5-7.
ProvenanceSir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818 - d. 1878); Sir Schomburg-Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian; Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wick; 1958, given by Mr. and Mrs. Wick to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 1958)