Title(s)

Reproductie van een prent van Neptunus en diverse fabelachtige dieren door Cornelis Bos
Frise, XVIe Siècle (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1740-20

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘FRISE représentant Neptune (...)’
• inscription: ‘LITT. F. - PL. 19’
• monogram: ‘JJvY’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous
• Joseph Maes (possibly)
• after print by: Cornelis Bos (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Christoffel Plantijn (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

c. 1875 - in or before 1880

Material

• paper

Technique

photolithography

Measurements

height 337 mm × width 139 mm

What

• (story of) Neptune (Poseidon)
• fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Documents classés de l'art dans les Pays-Bas du Xe au XVIIIe siècle / J.J. van Ysendijck (RP-F-2001-7-1740)

• La Belgique au moyen-âge
• 'Keuze uit de aanwinsten : fotografie', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 50 (2002) 2, p. 341-343, p. 342 (afb.), nr. 15.