Emblem Drawing ("I rule everything")

Emblem Drawing ("I rule everything") by Jacob Matham|Karel van Mander I

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray ink; double oval framing line in pen and brown ink, by the artist; framing line in pen and brown ink, by a later hand

Dimensions

Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 1/2 in. (12.5 × 16.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013

Accession Number

2013.178

Tags

MenWomenFemale NudesEmblems

About the Artist

Jacob Matham|Karel van Mander I · 15711631

**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 ...

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