Engel met masker en bliksemschicht maakt kind bang, Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, 1624

Title(s)

Engel met masker en bliksemschicht maakt kind bang
Pia desideria (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

19/45

Object number

RP-P-BI-2235

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 165

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Confige timore tuo carnes meas, à iudiciis enim tuis timui’
• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert
• after own design by: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert
• publisher: Hendrik Aertssens (II)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1590 - 1624 and/or 1624

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 95 mm × width 57 mm

What

• lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt
• the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ being frightened)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Engel met masker en bliksemschicht maakt kind bang

• Boekhorst - Brueghel, p. 64, cat.nr. 165
• Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus S. S. Patrum illustrata, Herman Hugo, afb. 19 tegenover p. 155
• http://emblems.let.uu.nl/hu1624019.html