Erasmus Roterodamus
Artist
Hieronymus Hopfer
German, 1500 - 1550
Dateca. 1525
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage Size: 8 7/8 × 6 1/2 in. (22.5 × 16.5 cm)
Plate mark: 8 3/8 × 6 in.
Frame Dimensions: 17 × 13 3/4 × 1/2 in. (43.2 × 34.9 × 1.3 cm)
Plate mark: 8 3/8 × 6 in.
Frame Dimensions: 17 × 13 3/4 × 1/2 in. (43.2 × 34.9 × 1.3 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineThe Feibes & Schmitt Collection
Object number2015.1.22
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Works on Paper
InscribedVerso marked Hieronymus Hopfa, ca, 1525
Label: The Frame and Art Shoppe, Amsterdam, Clifton Park, East Greenbush, Guilderland, Schenectady
DescriptionMan in profile viewed from the shoulders up. He is wearing a hat. Text above his head reads "ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS". Text to his right reads "DIE BILDNUS NACH LEBLICHER GESTALT AUS GETRUCKT." At the bottom center of the image is another man's head viewed in profile with text reading "DER TOD IST DIE LEST LINI DER DING ICH WEICH KAIM MARCK STAIN."ProvenanceWerner Feibes [1929-2021] and James Schmitt [1925-2013], Schenectady, New York; given to The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 2015.
William Hogarth
published 1796 (engraved 1747)
