Titelprent voor: Johann Philipp Abelinus. Theatri Europaei, das ist: Historischer Chronik (...) biss auf das Jahr 1633. Merian, Frankfurt a.M., 1673, Matthäus Merian (I), after Johann Hulsman, 1633

Title(s)

Titelprent voor: Johann Philipp Abelinus. Theatri Europaei, das ist: Historischer Chronik (...) biss auf das Jahr 1633. Merian, Frankfurt a.M., 1673
Historischer Chronicken continuation (...) (title on object)

Object type

Object number

RP-P-OB-53.329

Catalogue reference

• Wüthrich (Merian)

Description

Allegorie op de waarheid. Onderaan vallen de maskers af van zij die de waarheid zien, dat wordt geopenbaard door tijd, verlichting en geschiedenis.

Artist

• printmaker: Matthäus Merian (I)
• after design by: Johann Hulsman (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Matthäus Merian (I) (mentioned on object)

Dating

1633

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 295 mm × width 180 mm

What

• Father Time, man with wings and scythe
• title-page
• the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye ~ symbol of God the Father
• 'Historia'; 'Historia' (Ripa)
• horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba
• Truth; 'Verità' (Ripa)

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d. AE., Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich, Dl. 3, p. 123
• Abelinus, Johann Philipp. Theatri Europaei, das ist: Historischer Chronik (...) biss auf das Jahr 1633. [Bd. 2 van Theatrum Europaeum]. Merian, Frankfurt a.M., 1633.