Jacht op rijkdom, Hendrick Goltzius, 1576 - 1580

Title(s)

Jacht op rijkdom

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-10.089

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 109-2(5)
• Hollstein Dutch 113-2(4)
• New Hollstein Dutch 205-2(5)

Inscriptions / marks

• address: ‘Phls Galle. excud’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Vier allegorische figuren jagen op een symbolische dukaat met kippenpoten. In de marge verzen in Latijn, Frans en Nederlands.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius
• publisher: Philips Galle (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Haarlem
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1576 - 1580

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 229 mm × width 241 mm

What

• hunting, chase
• Saving, Frugality, Parsimony; 'Parsimonia' (Ripa)
• Industriousness, Assiduity; 'Assiduità', 'Industria', 'Zelo' (Ripa)
• Covetousness; 'Avaritia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins
• Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues
• Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Fortuna aurea', 'Fortuna buona', 'Fortuna pacifica overo clemente', 'Sorte' (Ripa)
• Squandering, Extravagance, Prodigality, Waste; 'Prodigalità' (Ripa)
• Flattery; 'Adulatione' (Ripa)
• 'Pecunia' (Ripa)

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. II, p. 26, cat.nr. 205