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Description: From: "Viae Vitae Aeternae" by A. Sucquet (1620). Numerous editions of this hugely popular work ("The Path to the Eternal Life") were published, mostly illustrated with 32 copper engravings.
Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Boetius A. Bolswert (1580-1633). Boetius a Bolswert was a renowned copper-plate engraver from Friesland. In his time the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens called forth new endeavours by engravers to imitate or reproduce the breadth, density of mass and dynamic illumination of those works. Boetius Bolswert was an important figure in this movement, not least because he was the elder brother and instructor of the engraver Schelte à Bolswert, whose reproductions of Rubens's landscapes were most highly esteemed in their own right.
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Subject: Original engraving, uncaptioned. Includes explanatory sheet titled "Contemplare hinc Deum, inde Luciferum: vide an hinc per vitium, an illi praetet per virtutem servire". A heavily symbolic emblem plate illustrating the just way to live and the path to Heaven.
Condition: Very good given age, lower and right margin thumbed. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 11 x 18.5 cm. The image size is ca. 9.5 x 13.5 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 4.3 x 7.3 inch. The image size is ca. 3.7 x 5.3 inch.
Medium: Copperplate etching/engraving on verge type paper.
Location: C200-21
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