Such is the Fame of Virtue from the Archetypa Studiaque

Jacob Hoefnagel, Flemish, 1575 - about 1630

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1592

Engraving on laid paper

Impression: 6 1/8 × 8 1/4 in. (15.5 × 20.9 cm)

Sheet: 7 5/16 × 10 11/16 in. (18.5 × 27.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund

2006.58.4

Geography

Place Made: Belgium, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in black ink, top center of image: An gravius quicquam est, aut vilius, altamen ignis./ Hinc saliurit scatebrae fonticulique leues. / sic INCLYTA VIRTVS.; inscribed, in black ink, bottom center of image: QVATVOR IN RERVM NATVRA ELEMENTA.; inscribed, in black ink, lower right of image: concba / Anatifera vul - Branta. / et Bernicla / 3; inscribed, in black ink, lower left of image: .6.

Course History

ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2012

ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015

Provenance

Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas, Texas; sold to present collection, 2006.

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