Jan
Sadeler I (aka Johann Sadeler;
Johannes Sadeler) (1550–1600)
“Saint
Ephraem” (TIB title) (aka “St Ephrem as Hermit”; “Ephräm der Syrer”; “Ephrem of
Edessa”; “Heilige Ephraim als Kluizenaar”), 1594, plate 3 from the series of 25
engravings, “Oraculum Anachoreticum: Hermits” (aka “Lives of the Hermits”; “Mannelijke
kluizenaars”; “Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum”, after a lost drawing
by Maarten de Vos (aka Marten de Vos; Maerten de Vos)
(1532–1603), published by Raphael Sadeler I (1560/61–1628/32) and/or Jan
Sadeler I in Antwerp.
Engraving
on laid paper with wide margins backed with a support sheet.
Size:
(sheet) 24.3 x 34.5 cm; (plate) 16.7 x 20.4 cm; (image borderline) 15.4 x 20.4
cm.
Inscribed
in plate within the image borderline: (lower left) “Sadelr. scalp.”;
(lower left-of-centre) “M de Vos in:”.
Lettered
in plate below the image borderline: “Soli sic ardẽs Basilius paruit EPHREM,/
Cui dedit Argolico posset ut ore loqui.// 3// Non secus ac pęrẽses ventur[us]
ab æthere Judex/ Terruit hunc: terrẽt quãdo futura malos?”
Lifetime
impression. State i (of ii) before the plate number (“3”) is effaced in state
ii.
TIB
7001. 380 (Isabelle de Ramaix 2001, “The Illustrated Bartsch”, vol. 70, Part 2
[Supplement], New York, Abaris Books, p. 223, cat. no. [7001].380); Hollstein
(Vos) 997 (Christiaan Schuckman [comp.] 1996, “Dutch and Flemish Etchings,
Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450–1700: Maarten de Vos: text”, vol. 44,
Rotterdam, Sound and Vision Rijksprentenkabinet, p. 207, cat. no. 997); Hollstein
(Sadeler) 409 (Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer [comp.] 1980, “Dutch and Flemish
Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450–1700: Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael
Sadeler II: text”, vol. 21, Amsterdam, Van Gendt & Co, p. 150 cat. no. 490).
The
Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “Saint
Ephraim the Syrian as an early Christian hermit, in a hut in a forest
landscape. He kneels before the vision of a fiery column appearing in the
sky (the annunciation of Saint Basil the Great).” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.168977).
Condition:
a richly inked, well-printed, near faultless lifetime/first state impression with
wide margins around the platemark and laid upon an archival support sheet of
millennium quality washi paper. There is a wormhole in the margin on the left
edge, a restored tear on the line of the flattened the centrefold and a faded
ink number at the lower right corner of the image; otherwise, the sheet is in a
very good condition for its considerable age with no significant stains or
foxing.
I am
selling this sensitively executed and very beautiful engraving by one of the
most famous of the Flemish old masters showing Saint Ephraem (c.306–373)—famous
for his role in introducing singing into public worship and (possibly more in
legend than fact) his role in summonsing a cloud to flies and mosquitoes to
repel the army of Sapor II —kneeling at his cave/hermitage entrance beside a
rapidly flowing stream on a mountain in Edessa, as he contemplates a vision of
a column in the sky (note that the saint was perceived and named as “the column
of the church”), for AU$304 (currently US$203.19/EUR183.85/GBP161.84 at the
time of posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and
handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes
imposed by some countries.
If you
are interested in purchasing this superb lifetime impression, please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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