Narcissus and Echo

Reference: S29274
Author Baptiste van DOETECUM
Year: 1572 ca.
Measures: 293 x 210 mm
€375.00

Reference: S29274
Author Baptiste van DOETECUM
Year: 1572 ca.
Measures: 293 x 210 mm
€375.00

Description

Etching and engraving, circa 1572.

Example in the first state of three, edited by Peter de Jode. Based on The Metamorphoses of Ovid, after drawings by Gerard van Groningen. 

Beautiful proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the copperplate or with thin margins, applied on old collection paper, in excellent condition.

Literature

New Hollstein 187 (Gerard van Groeningen) New Hollstein 633.I (Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum)

Baptiste van DOETECUM (attivo a Deventer ed Amsterdam tra il 1554 ed il 1580)

Son of Johan, with whom he worked. Doetecum was a family of engravers and map publishers working in Deventer and Haarlem (from 1587). He worked for Pieter Plancius, Orbis Terrarum Typus, 1590. Worked with his father on engravings for Jan von Lischoten, 1595; Bible maps, 1609; Hannonia, published later by Joannes Janssonius 1633.

Literature

New Hollstein 187 (Gerard van Groeningen) New Hollstein 633.I (Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum)

Baptiste van DOETECUM (attivo a Deventer ed Amsterdam tra il 1554 ed il 1580)

Son of Johan, with whom he worked. Doetecum was a family of engravers and map publishers working in Deventer and Haarlem (from 1587). He worked for Pieter Plancius, Orbis Terrarum Typus, 1590. Worked with his father on engravings for Jan von Lischoten, 1595; Bible maps, 1609; Hannonia, published later by Joannes Janssonius 1633.