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Schelte Adams Bolswert

The Defenders of the Eucharist,

Maker

  • Peter Paul Rubens
  • Schelte Adams Bolswert
  • Nicolaes Lauwers

Title

The Defenders of the Eucharist

Medium

engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving,
  • trimmed within platemark

Techniques

  • engraving,
  • trimmed within platemark

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 51.4 x 48.1 cm (20 1/4 x 18 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil, LC:25 30 5 Verso of mount:in pencil, LL:10-17-69 A-1/OLIVO; in UL:15ººRecto:in pencil, LR:19In Plate--In LL:Pet. Paul. Rubens pinxit et S. à Bolswert sculpsit.; in LR:Nicolaus Lauvers excudit Antuerpiae.; 4-line Latin inscription, LC:DOCTORVM aethereo... (see print for full inscription); in UC:HIC EST PANIS QVI DE CAELO DESCENDIT Ioan.6.

Identification

State

i/ii

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Anthony Olivo

Object Number

69.150

The Defenders of the Eucharist

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Read Online

Original--Verso:in pencil, LC:25 30 5 Verso of mount:in pencil, LL:10-17-69 A-1/OLIVO; in UL:15ººRecto:in pencil, LR:19In Plate--In LL:Pet. Paul. Rubens pinxit et S. à Bolswert sculpsit.; in LR:Nicolaus Lauvers excudit Antuerpiae.; 4-line Latin inscription, LC:DOCTORVM aethereo... (see print for full inscription); in UC:HIC EST PANIS QVI DE CAELO DESCENDIT Ioan.6.

i/ii

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Read Online

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is The Defenders of the Eucharist with the accession number of 69.150. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
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