Kind met geld en muziekinstrument gevangen in de val van de Dood, Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, 1624

Title(s)

Kind met geld en muziekinstrument gevangen in de val van de Dood
Pia desideria (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

9/45

Object number

RP-P-BI-2225

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 155

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Dolores inferni circumdederunt me, præoccupauerunt me laquei mortis’
• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert
• after own design by: Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert
• publisher: Hendrik Aertssens (II)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1590 - 1624 and/or 1624

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 95 mm × width 57 mm

What

• Death as skeleton
• devil(s) and demons
• finch trap, finchery
• Abstract Ideas and Concepts (+ emblematical representation of concept)

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Kind gevangen in de netten van de Dood

• Boekhorst - Brueghel, p. 64, cat.nr. 155
• Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus S. S. Patrum illustrata, Herman Hugo, afb. 9 tegenover p. 65
• http://emblems.let.uu.nl/hu1624009.html