A Centaur Family
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Title
A Centaur Family
Subject
Centaurs in art
Description
Engraving of a centaur family. A mother centaur nurses one of her two children, while the father centaur holds up a cub that he has brought to them in a wooded landscape.
Engraved by Collaert, Jan (1566-1628) and published by Galle, Philippe (1537-1612).
From the horse print series, Equile Ioannis Austriaci Caroli V. IMP. F., originally dedicated to Don Juan of Austria. From the four known editions of the print series, this engraving was added with the publication of the second edition.
As the print has been trimmed and lacks text in the lower margin, it is impossible to tell whether it is first or second state (not third) since it's inclusion into the horse print series. Starting from the second edition, this print formed part of the series of horses in the Stable of Don Juan of Austria, although initially (and logically) it has nothing to do with the rest of the series.
Inscription: Lettered in image area bottom center "Ioann. Stradanus delineator / Ioann. Collaert sculptor / Phls Galle excudit"
The print is missing four lines of Latin text in two columns in margin, which were cut or trimmed out of the original: "Adspice Zeuxis opus, quod fama erat aequore mersum, / Artifici Salvum post mala fata manu, / Ingenia id nostri nam supplent daedala secli / Ingenio quod edax tempus et unda rapit."
Engraved by Collaert, Jan (1566-1628) and published by Galle, Philippe (1537-1612).
From the horse print series, Equile Ioannis Austriaci Caroli V. IMP. F., originally dedicated to Don Juan of Austria. From the four known editions of the print series, this engraving was added with the publication of the second edition.
As the print has been trimmed and lacks text in the lower margin, it is impossible to tell whether it is first or second state (not third) since it's inclusion into the horse print series. Starting from the second edition, this print formed part of the series of horses in the Stable of Don Juan of Austria, although initially (and logically) it has nothing to do with the rest of the series.
Inscription: Lettered in image area bottom center "Ioann. Stradanus delineator / Ioann. Collaert sculptor / Phls Galle excudit"
The print is missing four lines of Latin text in two columns in margin, which were cut or trimmed out of the original: "Adspice Zeuxis opus, quod fama erat aequore mersum, / Artifici Salvum post mala fata manu, / Ingenia id nostri nam supplent daedala secli / Ingenio quod edax tempus et unda rapit."
Creator
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605
Source
Publisher
Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612
The British Museum
Tufts University, Tisch Library
The British Museum
Tufts University, Tisch Library
Date
1578
Contributor
Collaert, Jan, 1566-1628
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Format
jpg
750px × 553px
201 KB (199,736 bytes)
750px × 553px
201 KB (199,736 bytes)
Language
lat
Type
image
Identifier
Museum Number: 1957,0413.245
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1667554&partId=1
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1667554&partId=1
Coverage
16th Century
Netherlands
School/Style: Dutch
Netherlands
School/Style: Dutch
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
paper
Physical Dimensions
185 mm x 264 mm
Citation
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605, “A Centaur Family,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed May 6, 2024, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/220.