Animals drinking from a fountain. Etching by J. van den Hecke.

  • Hecke, Jan van den, approximately 1619-1684.
Date:
1656
Reference:
42315i
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Publication/Creation

[Italy], 1656.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving

Lettering

Magnificentissimo principi Paulo Iordano Bracciani duci etc. Patrono suo plurimum colendo hanc zoographiam consecrabat humillimus cliens quam ipse inuenit et fecit aqua forti Joannes vanden Hecke 1656 The Latin dedication is engraved as if it were an inscription on the base of an obelisk attached to an old Roman water-fountain

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Dedicated to Paolo II Giordano, Duke of Bracciano

Reference

Wellcome Collection 42315i

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