Peter Scriverius
Medium
Engraving and etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet; trimmed: 40 × 28.8 cm (15 3/4 × 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9447
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Peter Scriverius, a renowned poet and scholar, provided verses to accompany Hendrik Goltzius’s portrait Frederik de Vries (1923.1068). Here Scriverius himself appears in the fifth portrait of a series of prints depicting four famous Dutchmen (Quatuor Personae), for which he wrote celebratory Latin poems. Dutch translations appear below several of these sheets, assuring a wider audience for the prints. Cornelis Visscher’s lively engravings feature illusionistic twists in the helmet, baton, and bo...