Item Info
Item No: facp00014
Title: Drinkers Asking Bacchus for the Continuation of His Gifts
Source:
Print and Picture Collection - Old Master Prints
Notes:
Location: large box 1;
Dutch engraver and draftsman;
Engraving after Hendrik Goltzius (Dutch painter and printmaker, 1558-1617);
Signed lower left HG Invent. Sanredam sculp.;
Number 3 to left of center, bottom;
Inscription printed below image: "Bacche pater, prono prostrati corpore cuncti, suppliciter petimus, nobis tua dona seccundes: Dona quibus meror tristis, fuctus? recedit nostrage sollicitus relevantur pectora curis C Schoneus" (check print)
From Cults of Ceres, Venus, and Bacchus (series);
Bibliography:
The Illustrated Bartsch, Ed. W. Strauss, (New York, 1978–), Vol. 4(3), p. 388. 769.6 B28i (Art Reference)
Creation Year: ca. 1596
Image Dimensions Width: 44.3 cm
Creator Name: Saenredam, Jan, 1565-1607 - Artist