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Etched by Tempesta himself, no copy!

Measurements:  16,40 x 21 cm on plate border
Full sheet of 21,50 x 28,50 cm.
Quality acid free matting: 28 x 35 cm.

Condition: Excellent early  impression with a very good plate tone and little scratches in the plate.
From the first 1611 edition with the Latin text on the backside.

The Romans Taking Old Dutch Men as Hostages and Seducing Young Ones, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas)

Etching, first state of two, issue 1 (Bartsch)
Nagler XVIII.179.560-.595; Bartsch XVII.145.561 i/ii 

Print made by: Antonio Tempesta (1550-1630)
This painter engraver from Florence is an important link between the Flemish and Italian art. He was a pupil of Jan Van Der Straet (Stradanus) who was born in Bruges-Flanders. As a painter he was important and his fresco of hunting scenes and battle scenes are estimated. Antonio, perhaps even more then Rembrandt saw the etching technique as the medium to express his art. He made a larger amount of them and specialized in …

Inscription: Lettered along bottom in Dutch: 'De Romeynsche Commissarissen in't oplichten vant Hollandtsch volck den / Romeynen ten dienste kiesen wt oude mannen, de welcke sy hen met ghelt / lieten afroepen, oft opgheschoten ionghelingen, die sy tot oneerbaerhyt / misbruycken waer door de Romeynen in grooten haet comen.'; at right in Latin: 'Romani delectui Batavorum, habendo praepositi / agunt insolentius; senes nimirum conquirendo / quos pretio dimitterent, vel impuberes, et for: / ma conspicuos, quos ad suprum trahunt.'; bottom center: 2 


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Antonio Tempesta (1555 - 1630) - War of the Romans Against the Batavians - The Romans Taking Old Dutch Men as Hostages and Seducing Young Ones - First state etched by Tempesta himself - In professional matting - 1611

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