Caption
Shipwreck on a rocky coast during storm and lightning (right plate), Fates with thread of life, above Chronos next to the wheel of fortune (left plate), print, book illustration, Numbered on print on the left side of the sheet: Part II, Page: 287. On print on the right side of the sheet: Part II, Page: 190., watermark, printmaker: Andries van Buysen, printmaker: Johannes Folkema, publisher: Jacobus Verheyde (I), Amsterdam, 1723, paper, etching, letterpress printing, two etchings with text in letterpress on a folded sheet, proof, height 144 mm x width 88 mm x height 126 mm x width 83 mm, height 164 mm x width 207 mm x width 414 mm, Proofs for: Roeland van Leuve. Roeland van Leuve's Mixing Works. Amsterdam: Jacobus Verheyden, 1723., Father Time, man with wings and scythe, shipwreck, Fates, Parcae (Moirae), Turn of Fate, Wheel of Fortune, accidents with lightning, A wide, aged paper spread with two vertical engraved illustrations set within narrow frames and columns of printed text flanking them, showing an ornate scene in the left engraving of a bearded, partially draped elderly man standing with one foot on a globe while he steadies a large wheel with spokes; smaller winged figures cling to and climb the wheel, while a seated female figure perched on the rim gestures outward and two robed figures float above amid radiating beams and clouds; the right engraving depicts a stormy sea with tumultuous waves, a sailing ship listing and rigging strained under dark, stormy skies streaked with sharp lightning bolts, a small rowboat with people in it near the foreground and figures on the shoreline gesturing toward the boats; the paper shows aged toning and foxing marks along the margins.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B33_148
License type
Rights managed
Available size
50.4Mb (11.1Mb) / 22.9in x 8.5in / 6876 x 2564 (300dpi)