Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Der Erdbeschreiber // [The geographers].
Call Number
E South 09/GC018/Box 03/Normal/18th c./Artists A-L GA 2014.00922
Identifier
ark:/88435/dczp38wr375
Publisher
[Augsburg : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1721]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1721
Extent
1 item ; sheet 22 x 34 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Nally-Wright.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Interior scene. Large room with bookshelves; curtains open onto gallery with view upon trees. Seven well-dressed gentlemen are in the room. At center, young man enters room carrying three large books and hat. At left, two men converse; one is seated at table while the other man stands beside him. At right, three men stand and converse near large globe.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A. V.".
Caption: four lines of Latin verse and four lines of German verse.
German inscription: "Seht, wie den ganzen Bau der weit entlegnen Belt; // Des Birckels Fuss bestimmt, der Kugel kaum enthalt, // Der Menschen [wir?] beschreibt, die auf derselben wallen, // Wie muss nicht Gottes Merck im grossen wohlgefallen?".
Latin inscription: "Angustus, radius totum complectitur orbem, // Inque globo parvo maximus orbis adest. // Humanus calamus describit regna, hominesque, // Conditor! O quantum, quod facis ipsus, opus!".

Discovery Information

Subject
Books in art
Conversation in art
Geographers in art
Geography in art
Libraries—Europe—In art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0c1519ab-6597-4f10-9cba-cc345d0aeb4e/manifest