1572 and 1610
On the left is a portrait of Pieter Bruegel from the series Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies published in 1572. On the right is the re-engraved copy of the portrait published in Hendrick Hondius’s 1610 Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipuae Germaniae inferioris effigies.
Engraving
Attributed to Johannes Wierix, 1572
Engraving, second state
Signed ‘Hh’ by Hendrick Hondius
Copy in reverse direction to Cock 1572 engraved Pictorum
19.2 x 11.7 cm
Artist Tags:
- 1572 Pictorum
- 1610 Hondius Pictorum
- Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper)
- Explicitly described as painters in the verse
- In both – prints of subjects from the 1572 Pictorum
- Ingenio – genius
- Part one
- Pictor
- Third person
- Vocative
