Object Details
- Designer
- Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
- Publisher
- Joannes Galle, Flemish, 1600 – 1676
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. Second state. At center, a ship surrounded by sea monsters; on its decks are men and many bells. In the background are two similar ships. In a choppy sea. Near right bottom corner: "Joan. Stradanus invent. / Joan. Galle. excud." Bottom margin: "Nauita Erythraeum panidus qui navigat aequor / In prorae et puppis summo resonantia pendet / Tintinabula: eo sonitu praegrandia late, Balenas et Monstra marina à navibus arcet." "6."
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1590
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-8408
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- seascapes
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.6 × 33.6 cm (4 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
- Plate: 19.9 × 27.3 cm (7 13/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- made in
- Netherlands
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-8408
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq438794e96-3321-4a28-b76d-13a46546184f
