Sixteenth Century Northern Engraving & Etching
- Master MZ: Aristotle and Phyllis
- Dürer: Virgin & Child
- Dürer: Virgin & Child Crowned
- Dürer: Frederick the Wise
- Dürer: Saint Philip
- van Leyden: Triumph of David
- Zundt: Arrest of Baumgartner
- Hopfer: Charles V
- Beham: The Expulsion
- Beham: Mask Held by 2 Genii
- Beham: Mask Held by 2 Genii
- Brosamer: The Lute Player
- Pencz: Artemisia Preparing to Drink
- Pencz: Johann Friedrich
- Monogrammist CP : Dido
- Aldegrever: Dagger Sheath Design
- Aldegrever: Ornament with a Bat
- Hirschvogel: David's Triumph
- Hirschvogel: The Defeat and Death
- Claesz: Allegory with a Woman
- Massys: Two Crippled Musicians
- Cock: Colossaei
- Cock: Landscape with a Castle
- Ladenspelder: The Four Evangelists
- Brun: Two Turkish Men
- Suavius: Saint Paul Seated
- Delaune: Combat of the Centaurs
- Davent: Alexander Mastering Bucephalus
- Davent: Un Marais
- Thibaud: Hagar Gives Ishmael a Jug
- Woeiriot: Battaile de Constantin
- Galle: Solomon Building
- Sadeler: St. Paul at Corinth
- Wierex: Henry III
- Goltzius: Arnoud van Beresteyn
- Goltzius: Mercury and Argus
- Goltzius: A Young Man
- Collaert : January
- Collaert : Musical Celebration
- Collaert: David Playing the Harp
- van de Passe: Christian IV
- Muller: Belshazzar's Feast
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13. Georg Pencz (ca. 1500-1550) Artemisia Preparing to Drink Her Husband’s Ashes |
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Artemisia Preparing to Drink Her Husband’s Ashes
Engraving, ca.1539, 190 x 134 mm., Bartsch 83, Landau 91 a (of b). Provenance: Wilhelm Drugulin (Lugt 2612).
A very fine, sharp impression on laid paper with a complex but difficult to decipher
watermark, trimmed to the subject, ca. 2 mm. into the subject at the top, removing the top of the escutcheon, but with apparently 1 mm. more at the right than the impressions illustrated in Bartsch and Landau; tiny surface loss at the right bottom. Artemisia
was the widow of Mausolus, satrap of Caria in Asia Minor. She erected a great monument to his memory at Halicarnassus (hence, “mausoleum”), which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. According to legend, she mixed the ashes of Mausolus in liquid which she then drank, becoming a living tomb. Accordingly, she symbolizes a widow's devotion to her husband's memory.
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