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Nephalia Gnossia

Artist: Adriaen Collaert (1555-1623)
Title: Nephalia Gnossia
Date: ca. 1600
Medium: Engraving. After Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) and with a poem by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607). Plate 16/24 (plus title plate) of the Solitudo sive vitae foeminarum anachoritarum. Published in Antwerp, first by the artist, and then by Cornelis Galle I (1576-1650), and by Theodoor Galle (1566-1638).
Photo Source: Diels et al. 2006, cat. 782.
Note: Engraved copies of these engravings were published by Cesare Capranica (1601), Jean Leclerc IV (1606), Thomas de Leu (1606), the widow of Justus Sadeler (1621), Jacques Honervogt (ca. 1635), Gérard Jollain (between 1656 and 1688), and Balthasar Moncornet (by 1668).
Item: 4838A