John Barclay
1551 to 1600
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 15 × 9.7 cm (5 7/8 × 3 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.14.173
Art Historical Context
Discover the delicate engraving *John Barclay* by Jacob van der Hey, created between 1551 and 1600. This intimate print, measuring just 15 × 9.7 cm (5 7/8 × 3 13/16 in.), captures the precision of 16th-century Northern European printmaking. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Rosenwald Collection the CG-E Department, it exemplifies the era's fascination with portraiture through the reproducible medium of engraving. Engraving, a technique where intricate lines are incised into a metal plate inking and printing, allowed artists like van der Heyden—active in the Flemish-Dutch tradition—to achie...