Antique Print-EMBLEM-MERCY-SOUL-ANGEL-PURAGTORY-HOURGLASS-Boetius Bolswert-1630

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Original engraving, uncaptioned. Includes explanatory sheet titled "Miserere animae tuae placens Deo, & defunctorum; ac strenue virtutem cole" (Have pity on your own soul, pleasing God and the deceased; cultivate virtue and resolution). A convoluted emblematic plate showing several figures in purgatory reaching up toward a grieving man, an angel and several other figures, as well as a small church, and God in Heaven. Includes an hourglass. Copperplate etching/engraving on verge type paper. Description: From: "Viae Vitae Aeternae" by A. Sucquet (1620). Numerous editions of this hugely popular work ("The Path to the Eternal Life") were published, mostly illustrated with 32 copper engravings.Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Boetius A. Bolswert (1580-1633). Boetius a Bolswert was a renowned copper-plate engraver from Friesland. In his time the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens called forth new endeavours by engravers to imitate or reproduce the breadth, density of mass and dynamic illumination of those works. Boetius Bolswert was an important figure in this movement, not least because he was the elder brother and instructor of the engraver Schelte à Bolswert, whose reproductions of Rubens's landscapes were most highly esteemed in their own right. Condition: Very good given age, small tear in the lower margin, small stain to the left margin. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: C200-22 The overall size is ca. 4.3 x 7.3 inch. The image size is ca. 3.7 x 5.3 inch. The overall size is ca. 11 x 18.5 cm. The image size is ca. 9.5 x 13.5 cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 43852

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