Interior with Draftsman, Title of Part Four, from "The Drawing Book" (Het Tekenboek) of Abraham Bloemaert
Frederick Bloemaert, Dutch, 1616 - 1690
after Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 - 1651
about 1650-1656
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Plate: 8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in. (20.8 × 16.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 15/16 in. (38.7 × 27.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.965.85
Publisher
Reinier and Josua Ottens, Amsterdam, 1740
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Abraham Bloemaert inventor.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: Fred. Bloemaert Sculpsit.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: [in banner] QUATRIEME PARTIE, / Contenant / Des Figures d'Academie d'Hommes et de Femmes. / N. Visscher excudit. Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae [ae in ligature] et Westfrisiae [ae in ligature]; inscribe, in plate, lower right, below image: No. [o in superscript] 96; Watermark, upper center: IV; Watermark lower center: P[indistinct] PATRIA [lion rampant with a sword and arrows; garden of Holland; seated maid of Dort (Dordecht) with hat on a spear]
Exhibition History
17th and 18th Century Prints, Art 46 Northern Baroque, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-April 23, 1978.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Provenance
R.E. Lewis, Inc., San Rafael, California; sold to present collection, 1965.
Catalogue Raisonne
M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons, 1993, pp. 405-406, no. T96.
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