Joshua, plate four from The Nine Worthies
1594, reworked second state
Medium
Engraving in black on cream laid paper, tipped to cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.8 × 8.5 cm (4 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Primary support; cut within plate: 12.1 × 8.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 13.3 × 9.8 cm (5 1/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185117
About the Artist
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1571–1656
Nicolaes de Bruyn was a Flemish printmaker born in Antwerp in 1571, active during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and known primarily for his large, elaborately detailed engravings of landscapes, hunting scenes, and biblical and mythological subjects. He trained in the tradition of Flemish reproductive engraving and was deeply influenced by the work of his contemporaries and pre...