Saturn

1582

Jonas Silber

Artist, German, active 1572 - 1589

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    punch engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (circle, trimmed within platemark): 12 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5806

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 2, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The British Museum, London (duplicate stamp, Lugt 305)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon. 22 vols, 1835-1852. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 8

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam, 2010: Vol. LXXVII, no. 2, i/ii.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at bottom center: .I.S. / 1582; verso: in graphite, at center: Dup / From E 9 [crossed out] 4 W 321 / I do not find the / n G 231 [illegible] / B 4232 / w [?] 32950

Markings

British Museum Duplicate (Lugt 305)

Watermarks

bear

Wikidata ID

Q65023813

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