Scene Eight: A Forest with a Wooden Bridge, from Eight Scenes from Bohemia
Aegidius Sadeler, II
1610/20
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 23.1 × 36 cm (9 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.); sheet: 28.9 × 41.8 cm (11 7/16 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268496
About the Artist
Aegidius Sadeler, II · 1570–1629
Aegidius Sadeler II was born in Antwerp around 1570 into the most distinguished printmaking dynasty of the sixteenth century. The Sadeler family — spanning Jan I, Raphael, and Aegidius I — dominated the European print trade from their Flemish base, and Aegidius II was trained by his uncle Jan Sadeler I, under whom he was listed as a pupil in the records of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1585. He...