The Realm of Neptune, from Drawing Book
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 15/16 x 9 5/8 in. (15.1 x 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.95.497(136)
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About this artwork
Frederick Bloemaert's "The Realm of Neptune" (1650-56) from the Drawing Book exemplifies the influential instructional prints after his father Abraham Bloemaert's designs. This engraving (5 15/16 x 9 5/8 inches) belongs to a series of 173 plates published as the "Konstryk Tekenboek" (Artistic Drawing Book) around 1650, which became one of the most successful art instruction manuals of the 17th and 18th centuries, reprinted into the 19th century across Europe. Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) was a...