Bedreigingen voor de Nederlanden, anonymous, after Joachim Wtewael, 1613

Title(s)

Bedreigingen voor de Nederlanden
Allegorieën Nederlandse Opstand (series title)

Object type

• drawing

Serial number

2?/13?

Object number

NG-11

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘HG 1613’
• mark: ‘Goltzius, m e nr. 10’

Description

Allegorische voorstelling van de Nederlanden bedreigd door de rooms-katholieke kerk en door de Geuzen of het Spaanse leger.

Artist

• draughtsman: anonymous
• after drawing by: Joachim Wtewael

Dating

1613

Material

• prepared paper
• paint (coating)
• ink

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 189 mm × width 243 mm

What

• personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.
• archbishop, bishop, etc. (Roman Catholic)
• robbery
• theft
• violent death by burning at the stake; pyre
• execution of heretic, e.g. by burning at the stake, 'auto-da-fé'

Where

• Low Countries

Acquisition

purchase Apr-1932

Copyright

Public domain

• Liefde en lust : de kunst van Joachim Wtewael, James Clifton, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Arthur K. Wheelock (jr.), Stijn Alsteens, Anne Walter Lowenthal, p. 54, afb. 4
• Netherlandish drawings of the 15th and 16th centuries, dl. 2, p.186, cat.nr. 502
• Pleasure and piety : the art of Joachim Wtewael, Joachim Wtewael, James Clifton, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Arthur K. Wheelock (jr.), Stijn Alsteens, p. 54, afb. 4