Waterslang

About this artwork

Prent uit serie Libelivs varia Genera piscium complectens van dertien prenten met zoetwatervissen, zeevissen, kikkers, schaaldieren en zeewezens (inclusief titelprent). Vermoedelijk ging een uitgave van Assuerus van Londerseel vooraf aan deze editie van Francoys van Beusekom, zie De Groot 1988, p. 38.

About the Artist

Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1571–1656

Nicolaes de Bruyn was a Flemish printmaker born in Antwerp in 1571, active during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and known primarily for his large, elaborately detailed engravings of landscapes, hunting scenes, and biblical and mythological subjects. He trained in the tradition of Flemish reproductive engraving and was deeply influenced by the work of his contemporaries and pre...