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Anna Maria van Schurman

Print
mid 17th century (printed)
Artist/Maker
Cornelis Van Dalen (engraver)
Cornelius Janssen Van Ceulen (artist)
Clement De Jonghe (publisher)
Place of origin
Netherlands (printed)

Print, portrait of a woman, half-length, facing half right, within an oval border of masonry, with a putto in each lower corner.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleAnna Maria van Schurman (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, engraving by Cornelis van Dalen after Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen, mid-17th century.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a woman, half-length, facing half right, within an oval border of masonry, with a putto in each lower corner.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.5cm (cut)
  • Width: 23.8cm (cut)
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
'Tanta fides…parem. Constanter / Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen Pinxit C. v. Dalen Junior Sculpsit Clement de Jonghe excudebat.' (Lettered with name of sitter, 6 lines of verse)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Artist
Painter
Miniaturist
Scholar
Putto
Anna Maria Van Schurman
Bibliographic references
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • Muller, Frederik. Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 portretten, van Nederlanders. Amsterdam: F. Muller, 1853.
  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Paris: É Bouillon, 1854-1908.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Lang, G. E. (1990). Etched in memory: The building and survival of artistic reputation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. The following excerpt is from the above text: "The first woman etcher of whom there is any record was Anna Maria Schurmann (or van Schurman), a child prodigy of Dutch parentage, who died in 1678."
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.980-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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