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Print, Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom
This is a Print. It was designed by Jan Theodor de Bry and print maker: Théodore de Bry and sitter: William I, Prince of Orange. It is dated ca. 1588 and we acquired it in 1942. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
Its dimensions are
12.5 × 12.2 cm (4 15/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Lettered around the center portrait: "DE HOOPMAN VAN WEISHEYT / LE CAPITAINE PRVDENT" and "THE DE BRI.F.ET.EX". Lettered ouside the portrait, in three columns, each two lines, of French text" "De Dieu ... zele". Lettered in Dutch with six lines of verse around the design: "De Wijsheijt ... inden raet".
Cite this object as
Print, Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom; Designed by Johann Theodor de Bry (German, 1561 - 1623); Print Maker: Theodor de Bry (French, active Netherlands and Germany, 1528 - 1598); Sitter: William I, Prince of Orange (Dutch, 1533 – 1584); Netherlands; engraving on paper; 12.5 × 12.2 cm (4 15/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1942-36-34
