Blazon of the Old Haarlem Chamber of Rhetoric of the Pellicanists (‘Trou moet Blycken’)
Jacob Matham
1597
Medium
Engraving in black on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
35.8 × 23.4 cm (14 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
280236
About the Artist
Jacob Matham · 1571–1631
**Jacob Matham: Master Engraver of Haarlem** Jacob Matham was born on October 15, 1571, in Haarlem, in the Northern Netherlands, into a burgeoning artistic milieu. Following his father's early death, his mother married the renowned painter and engraver Hendrick Goltzius in 1579, who adopted the young Jacob and trained him rigorously in the workshop as his stepson and pupil. Matham's first signed ...