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A work made of engraving and etching on cream laid paper.

Peter Scriverius

1649

Cornelis Visscher (Dutch, c. 1629-1658) after Pieter Claesz. Soutman (Dutch, c. 1580–1657)

Holland

Peter Scriverius, a renowned poet and scholar, provided verses to accompany Hendrik Goltzius’s portrait Frederik de Vries (1923.1068). Here Scriverius himself appears in the fifth portrait of a series of prints depicting four famous Dutchmen (Quatuor Personae), for which he wrote celebratory Latin poems. Dutch translations appear below several of these sheets, assuring a wider audience for the prints. Cornelis Visscher’s lively engravings feature illusionistic twists in the helmet, baton, and book that extend into the viewer’s space.

Engraving and etching on cream laid paper

Prints and Drawings