Execution of Arminians in The Hague
Medium
Etching with touches of engraving and letterpress in black on ivory laid paper (pieced)
Dimensions
Image: 27.6 × 32 cm (10 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 40.2 × 32 cm (15 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229156
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...