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Mercurio Mercimo Niorum Præsidi P.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Theodoor van Thulden

After: Peter Paul Rubens
Published by: Theodoor van Thulden
Title
Mercurio Mercimo Niorum Præsidi P.
Description
English: Plate 34: Mercury Departing from Antwerp; on a pedestal at the centre stands Mercury, wearing his winged helmet and sandals, readying for departure with a caduceus and purse raised in his outstretched hand; to the left the personification of a river god leans against a silenced cannon, sleeping, as a putto turns the bounds around his ankle; at right, the personification of Antwerp kneels on a block, with an anchor and broken oars beside her; in the background the stern of a ship rides the calm waters of the Schelde with the standard of the Spanish Netherlands flying; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
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Depicted people Illustration to: Gaspar Gevaerts
Date 1635-1641 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 335 millimetres (plate-mark)
Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 271 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1884,0112.65
Notes

One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. Theodore van Thulden not only supervised the painting project for the entire Stage of Mercury (see 1884,0112.64), but he also personally executed the principal canvas of Mercury Departing from Antwerp for the central bay. This etching reproduces the painting, but also incorporates additional details, such as the two hands issuing from Antverpia's mural crown, which were not part of Rubens' preliminary design.

Lit: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 178-184.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0112-65
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