Burial of Jacob, plate 3 from the series “Cursus Omnium Creaturarum Dei (The Course of All God’s Creatures)”

Adriaen Collaert, After Hans Bol, Published by Aegidius Sadeler I

About 1580-1584

Prints can be collaborative. Here we have Collaert engraving a design invented by the artist Hans Bol, which was published by one of the Sadelers, a family of printmakers, publishers, and print sellers. In his career Adriaen Collaert engraved about 600 prints, a number of which are of his own design. By far, however, the majority of his work comprises engravings after other Netherlandish artists.

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Semi-nude woman gracefully skims surface of a pond with toes of her right foot. As she inclines her body to the proper right she gently cups a calla lily with her right hand to inhale its fragrance. Her left arm is aloft, fingers holding the edge of her white diaphanous garment that billows above. In the background, a slight pink tinge on the landscape signals the arrival of dawn.
A vertical, abstract composition made up of a repetition of a geometric shape in various sizes vertically stacked, appearing to balance on top of one another.
In this three-quarter length portrait, a man is pictured wearing a dark colored hat and holding a pair of white gloves.
Horizontally arranged in two rows are the Seven Virtues, each represented by a classicaly dressed woman with a symbol of her virtue, and below her, a historical figure who was famous for that virtue. From left to right there is: Prudence with Solon; Justice with King Solomon; Faith with St. Peter; Charity with St. John the Evangelist; Hope with St. James the Greater; Fortitude with Samson; and Temperance with Scipio Africanus.