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Beached whale near Beverwijk, 1602   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jan Saenredam

Published by: Johannes Janssonius
Title
Beached whale near Beverwijk, 1602
Description
English: A beached whale near Beverwijk witnessed by Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz; the whale lies on a beach, its head to left and a rope tied around its tail, with four figures clambering on its side; the prince stands before it wearing a plumed hat and holding a handkerchief, his entourage gathered around him; at left Saenredam sketches the whale, resting the sheet of paper on a barrel and using his cloak as a wind-break; beyond, an extensive shoreline with dunes and a beach crowded with people; cartouche frame at top with allegorical details, including representations of an earthquake, eclipse, and Time, also including details of parts of the whale after it burst apart under the pressure of decomposing gases, the head with open jaw seen at left; beneath the frame and in the sky at left, Death as a skeleton shooting the Maid of Amsterdam with a crossbow, who falls backwards (a reference to plague). 1602
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Depicted people Representation of: Ernst Casimir, Count of Nassau-Dietz
Date 1602 (published in 1618)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 408 millimetres
Width: 598 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1846,0509.271
Notes

See also 1871.0812.1545 for another impression, an earlier state.

Literature: C.Ackley, 'Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat. 1981, cat.no.24; G. Luijten, 'Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620', Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, exh. cat. 1993, cat. no. 208; Ingrid Faust, 'Zoologische Einblattdrucke und Flugschriften vor 1800, Band IV: Wale, Sirenen, Elefanten', Stuttgart, 2002, cat. no. 547.3; Susan Dackerman et al., 'Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Yale UP, 2011, cat.no.3.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1846-0509-271
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