Amerigo Vespucci on His Ship

Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, 1560 - 1618
after Jan van der Straet, Netherlandish, 1523 - 1605

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about 1585-1592

Engraving on laid paper

Plate: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)

Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 in. (25.1 × 33 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

PR.964.38.3

Portfolio / Series Title

Plate 3 from Americae Retectio (The Discovery of America)

Publisher

Philip Galle, Antwerp

Geography

Place Made: Belgium, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: AMERICUS VESPUCCIUS FLORENTINUS portentosa navigatione ad Occasum atque ad Austrum duas Orbis terrarum partes, nostris oris quas / incolimus maoires, te nullis antea nobis notas sœculis, aperuit, quarum alteram de sue nomine AMERICAM mortalium consensus nominavit, An. Sal 8 IIID.; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: 3; Collector's mark, reverse, stamped, in blue ink, center: [diamond; possibly L. 3528 without initials]

Course History

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

Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-October 14, 1996.

Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-March 21, 1976.

The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, no. 8D.

Publication History

Joy Kenseth, Editor, "The Age of the Marvelous", Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 226-227, no. 8C.

Provenance

William H. Schab, Dealer, Rare Books and Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1964.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hollstein, Vol. 4: 469; New Hollstein (The Collaert Dynasty), Vol. 5: 1201; Baroni Vannucci (1997): 698

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