PrintsNetherlandish16th century

The Seven Planets

1585

Artists

Johann Sadeler IArtist

Maerten de VosArtist after

Description

eight engravings bound together in a marble paper album; three blank pages before and after bound prints

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Medium

Engravings on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Netherlandish

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

album: 26.2 × 34.5 cm (10 5/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

Provenance

[Hill-Stone, New York] sold; to Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 2002, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

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