Unequal Justice, plate 4 from The Abuses of The Law
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1580, published 1597
Medium
Engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18 × 22.5 cm (7 1/8 × 8 7/8 in.); sheet: 20.3 × 25.1 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267875
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was the most celebrated engraver of the Northern Renaissance and a pivotal figure in Dutch Mannerism. Born near the German-Dutch border, Goltzius transformed printmaking into a virtuoso art form through his revolutionary 'swelling line' technique, where the burin was manipulated to create lines of varying thickness that produced unprecedented tonal effects and three-d...