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Reference: S305202
Author Johannes van DOETECUM
Year: 1574 ca.
Measures: 243 x 198 mm
€600.00

Reference: S305202
Author Johannes van DOETECUM
Year: 1574 ca.
Measures: 243 x 198 mm
€600.00

Description

Etching and engraving, circa 1574, with no signature. From the series "The Twelve Months" after Gerard van Groningen.

Example in the first state of two, published in Antwerp by Gerard de Jode.

Excellent proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, with thin margins, in excellent condition.

This rare work is the result of the colaboration of the work of Pieter Jalhea Furnius (1545 - 1626), which affects the central scene, and the brothers Luke and Joannes van Doetecum, which carry the ornamental border.

Rare.

Literature

The New Hollstein (Doetecum) p. 182, 734 I/II; The New Hollstein (van Groningen) 210 I/II.

Johannes van DOETECUM (Attivo tra il 1554 - 1606)

Doetecum was a family of engravers and map publishers working in Deventer and Haarlem (from 1587). Johannes the elder, engraved for C. Plantin and Officina Plantiniana, 1559 onwards. With brother Lucas, worked on De Jode's Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Descriptio, 1571; Gerard de Jode's Speculum, 1578; Abraham Ortelius and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.

Literature

The New Hollstein (Doetecum) p. 182, 734 I/II; The New Hollstein (van Groningen) 210 I/II.

Johannes van DOETECUM (Attivo tra il 1554 - 1606)

Doetecum was a family of engravers and map publishers working in Deventer and Haarlem (from 1587). Johannes the elder, engraved for C. Plantin and Officina Plantiniana, 1559 onwards. With brother Lucas, worked on De Jode's Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Descriptio, 1571; Gerard de Jode's Speculum, 1578; Abraham Ortelius and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.