Jan Sadeler I - Apollo playing music - 1597

Apollo sitting on a tree trunk playing the lyre, at his foot scientific instruments but also song books and a lute, at left the nine muses at the foot of mount Parnassus, pegasus appears at the summit. In and around the buildings scientists, including cartoghraphers and alchemists, and artists like a painter. The hole scene breathes education and knowledghe, science and art. Signed by inventor Stradanus and engraver Sadeler at the bottom of the print. Freom a series of five plates 'Schema seu speculum principum' dedicated to Charles Emanuel Savoy and his wife Catherine.
Dimensions: 22,50 x 28,00 cm Artist Name: Jan Sadeler I (1550-1600) Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (381) --- Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (704.5) --- Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (535) --- Literature: A. Baroni and M. Sellink, 'Stradanus 1523-1605: Court artist of the Medici', exh.cat. Groeningemuseum Brugge 2008-2009, Turnhout, 2012, pp.326-330, cat.no.127-132. Medium: Engraving Circa: 1597 Notes: All measurements are taken on the plate mark. All lot's are listed with several high resolution images, which is the best way to give a clear and objective idea of the general very good condition. Textual condition description is limited, so please examine the images carefully and ask for more info if needed.

Condition: Excellent outstanding impression on laid paper with a circular Italian watermark. The print has good plate tone, full plate borders and good half centimeter margins. Top condition.