101. Hans Vredeman de Vries - Picturing the Netherlandish Canon

101Engraved by Hendrick Hondius (Orenstein 1996)
Signed ‘Hh form. Cum privil.’ by Hendrick Hondius

19.8 x 11.6 cm

Transcription of Inscription:

IOANNES VREDEMANNUS FRISIUS. LEOVARDIENSIS.
Pictorum summus, celebrat quos Optica virtus,
Friso : probant artem Regia tecta tuam.
Cum tua sint Opera haec varii¹ subnixa Columnis
Spectabit longo tempore posteritas.

Translation of Inscription:

Hans Vredeman de Vries of Leeuwarden
Frisian, greatest of painters whom skill in optics makes famous, the royal palace proves your skill. Since these works are yours, supported by diverse² columns, posterity shall gaze upon them for a long time.

Hollstein 1994 no.110

Karel Van Mander’s biography of Hans Vredeman de Vrie
Grove Art Online biography

Footnotes:

Sic. the s of “variis” is written in pencil only.
I am reading “variis” for the text’s “varii”. A space seems to have been left for the missing “s”.

Artist Tags: 101, 1610 Hondius Pictorum, Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper), Explicitly described as painters in the verse, Only in the Hondius Pictorum, Prints in Part Two and Vocative.