Verkondiging aan de herders, Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, after Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1717 - 1732

Title(s)

Verkondiging aan de herders
Pastoralen (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

7/14

Object number

RP-P-2021-3115

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 330
• Roethlisberger 141

Description

Rechtsonder genummerd: 7.

Artist

• printmaker: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert
• after design by: Abraham Bloemaert
• publisher: Wilhelmus Koning (possibly)

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

1611 - 1632 and/or c. 1717 - 1732

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 115 mm × width 145 mm

What

• annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air
• dog
• goat

Acquisition

unknown 2021

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Omslag voor veertien prenten met dieren

• Boekhorst - Brueghel, F.W.H. 1888-1957. Hollstein (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich), p. 67, cat.nr. 330
• Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Marcel George, 1929-2020 Roethlisberger, p. 167-168, cat.nr. 141