Atlas draagt de hemelgewelven op zijn schouders, Caspar Merian, after Hans Holbein (II), after Ambrosius Holbein, 1676

Title(s)

Atlas draagt de hemelgewelven op zijn schouders
Illustraties uit de Lof der Zotheid (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-21.854

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 43

Artist

• print maker: Caspar Merian
• after drawing by: Hans Holbein (II)
• after drawing by: Ambrosius Holbein
• publisher: Johann Rudolf Genath

Dating

1516 and/or 1676

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / letterpress printing

Measurements

height 66 mm × width 61 mm

What

• (story of) Atlas

Who

• Desiderius Erasmus

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

• The drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger for Erasmus' "Praise of folly", p. 415, cat.nr. 46