Heilige Hiëronymus van Betlehem als kluizenaar, Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1590 - 1612

Title(s)

Heilige Hiëronymus van Betlehem als kluizenaar
Dùm Bethlemiticis latitas (...) tibi tuta facis (title on object)
Kluizenaars (series title)
Ad sacrum speculum (...) patribus dat ales (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

9/23

Object number

RP-P-BI-2347

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 104-1(2)
  Remark: 2(2) onjuiste staten vermelding
• Roethlisberger 188-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert
• after design by: Abraham Bloemaert
• publisher: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert

Place

print maker: Amsterdam
publisher: Low Countries

Dating

1590 - 1612

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 146 mm × width 91 mm

What

• St. Jerome as penitent in the desert, half naked, kneeling before a crucifix and holding a stone in his hand to beat his breast; a skull (and other 'Vanitas' symbols), sometimes a scorpion and a snake beside him

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Boekhorst - Brueghel, F.W.H. 1888-1957. Hollstein (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich), p. 63, cat.nr. 104-1
• Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Marcel George, 1929-2020 Roethlisberger, p. 171-175, 180, cat.nr. 188-2