Gevecht tussen goden en giganten, Theodor de Bry, after Jean Jacques Boissard, 1596

Title(s)

Gevecht tussen goden en giganten
NIL MORTALIBUS ARDVV EST COELV IPSV PETIM STVLT (title on object)
Denis Lebey de Batilly, Emblemata, 1596 (series title)

Object type

• print
• cognizance

Serial number

21/63

Object number

RP-P-OB-31.404

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 177

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

De giganten bouwen een berg uit rotsen om de Goden in de Olympus aan te kunnen vallen.

Artist

• print maker: Theodor de Bry
• after drawing by: Jean Jacques Boissard
• publisher: Theodor de Bry
• Denis Lebey de Batilly

Place

Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1596

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 67 mm × width 85 mm

What

• the Giants piling up mountains

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Emblemata : emblemata a Iano Iac. Boissardo delineata sunt, et a Theodoro de Bry sculpta, et nunc recens in lucem edita, Jean Jaques Boissard, Dionysius Lebeus-Batillius
• Brun - Coques, p. 46, cat.nr. 177