Pharos (The Lighthouse at Alexandria)
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 22.2 x 27.5 cm (8 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.), cut within platemark
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg
Accession Number
2011.139.94
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Philip Galle, after Maerten van Heemskerck
**Philip Galle (1537–1612)** was a leading Netherlandish engraver, designer, and print publisher whose reproductive prints helped disseminate the works of major 16th-century masters across Europe. Born in Haarlem, he trained as a pupil of the humanist and engraver Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. In Haarlem, Galle engraved several compositions by the local painter Maerten van Heemskerck, establishing ...