An Italian landscape in which a sick person is being carried to a hospital. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.

  • Swanevelt, Herman van, approximately 1600-1655.
Date:
[between 1600 and 1699]
Reference:
46966i
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Description

Described by Nagler, loc. cit., thus: "Das Hospital, in der Ruine eines antiken Gebäudes rechts des Blattes zwei Männer tragen einen Kranken hinein, und vier arme Weiber folgen nach. Links vorn ist eine Gruppe von drei Figuren, welche die Szene betrachten, und zwei Männer sind stehend in Unterredung."

Publication/Creation

[Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1699]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 18.5 x 28.3 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Herman van Swanevelt inventor fecit ; cum privilegio Regis

Edition

State I (Nagler)? State III (Hollstein)?.

References note

G.K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, Leipzig, vol. XX, p. 185, Van Swanevelt no. 87 (no. 5 in a group of twelve prints, nos. 83-94)
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings and engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, vol. 29, p. 87, Swanevelt no. 91 (one of set of twelve prints, Hollstein nos. 87-98), "Landscape with a hospital"
A.C. Blume, 'Hermann van Swanevelt and his prints', Oud Holland, 1994, vol. 108, pp. 1-13 (on dating of the prints: Swanevelt arrived in Rome in the 1620s and left for Florence and Paris in 1641, p. 2)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 46966i

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