Tresexcellent prince Matthias, archiduc Daustrice, duc de Bourgoigne, de Stier, de Carinthe, et de Garniole, comte de Tirol, et de Habsbourg [graphic] : Messire Guillamme prince d'Oranges, comte de Nassou, de Vlanden, Dietz, et Catssenellenboge, baron de Breda et Diest, vicomte perpetuel de Besancon, et Danvers.

Hollstein title: Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor and Willem I, Prince of Orange (William the Silent)
Messire Guillamme prince d'Oranges, comte de Nassou, de Vlanden, Dietz, et Catssenellenboge, baron de Breda et Diest, bicomte perpetuel de Besancon, et Danvers

[Delft] : [Publisher not identified], [ca. 1578]

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 198 x 264 mm

paper

2 portraits in ovals, set in embellished rectangle, of Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (left) and Willem I, Prince of Orange (right); both wearing armor and holding batons. Portraits surrounded by allegorical figures on pedestals: to left, Prudence reading a book and with a snake; at center, Vigilance holding the coat of arms of seventeen provinces; to right, Fortitude holding a pillar. Above each figure, his coat of arms.

Titles from cartouches below oval portraits.

Along upper edge, three cartouches with biblical quotations in Latin (Quid sapientia ... Sap. 8; Ne sinuil tradas ... Psal. 28; Dominus fortitudo ... Psal. 28). In lower margin, two lines from Isaiah 62:6 in Dutch (O Jerusalem ick wil wachters op dijne mueren bestellen...)

Attribution and date from Hollstein.

Jan Wierix was active in Delft during the period ca. 1577-1579.

Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, Wierix family, 2119

Netherlands -- Delft.

ART Vol. c97 no.20 a-b

Bound with 26 other engraved portraits of 16th-century rulers, most published by Hieronymus Cock.

221116-2nd