Allegorical Figure of Africa, from the Four Continents series
Crispijn I de Passe, Dutch, 1564 - 1637
about 1590
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 2 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (5.7 × 10.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906
PR.957.206.1
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, bottom center: Crispian d. Passe fe: et excudit.; inscribed, in plate, upper right: AFRICA
Exhibition History
Reconstitution, Dorothy and Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-May 31, 2020.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 15, 2005.
Unlayering Stereotypes: Selections from the Permanent Collection For Teaching Cultural Anthropology, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 7, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 20, 1995.
Provenance
Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given by his Estate to present collection, 1957.
Catalogue Raisonne
D. Franken, L'Oeuvre Grave des Van de Passe, Amsterdam, 1881, no. 1205; Hollstein no. 603.
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