(Antwerp 1522 – 1562 / probably Breda c. 1528 – 1569 Brussels)

Warship with the inscription ‘Die Scip 1564’

Engraving, condition I of II, 24.1 x 19.3 cm.

Published by Hieronymus Cock (Hollstein III, p. 265, no. 98

Literatuur: F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings Engravings and Woodcuts -ca. 1450-1700, Vol. III, no. 98, pp. 262-264, with fig. (first state). Elly Bos and Maartje de Haan, The Empire of Neptune: Maritime Printmaking around the Golden Age, p. 14, cat. no. 2. Rotterdam 1996.

Irene de Groot and Robert Vorstman, Sailing ships – Prints by the Dutch masters from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century , Published in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, Maarssen 1980, no. 1, with image of this first state. Muller 418 As (8). Van Bastelaer 98. De Ramaix, Lebeer 41. Laurens J. Bol, Die höllandische Marinemalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts , p. 5 with fig. Braunschweig 1973.