12. Abraham Casembrot (Casembroot)
(before 1593-1658)
A Galley at Anchor in the Harbor of Messina

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Casembrot, A Galley at Anchor

A Galley at Anchor in the Harbor of Messina

Etching, after 1623, 123 x 185 mm., Hollstein 2, LeBlanc 2. Fine, strong impression on laid paper trimmed on or near the platemark but with a narrow white border outside the borderline; a small, old red chalk annotation at the bottom center. In the seventeenth century many artists from the low countries visited Italy but precious few of them got at far south as Sicily. Casembrot, who was born in Bruges, arrived there in 1623 and spent the remainder of his life there, even becoming Dutch consul in 1649. Though he apparently drew assiduously and painted oils, he made only about two dozen etchings, all the most important of them of sailing ships and the harbor of Messina. This one, the second in a set of 13 views of that harbor, is typical. It is also rare, lacking in the collections of the British Museum, the MFA, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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