Execution of Arminians in Leiden
Medium
Hand-colored etching with engraving and letterpress in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.6 × 23 cm (5 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 31.1 × 25 cm (12 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229157
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher, II · 1587–1652
Claes Janszoon Visscher II (1587–1652) was one of the most prolific and commercially astute figures of the Dutch Golden Age print world — a draughtsman, etcher, mapmaker, and publisher whose Amsterdam workshop became one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Born into a family already engaged in the print trade, Visscher learned etching and engraving directly from his father, Claes Jansz. Visscher...