Cornelis Cort (1533-1578)
Cornelis Cort (1533-1578) - Pastoral Goddess Ceres - Frans Floris / Description: Pastoral Nymphs and Goddesses: Ceres, full-length, holding a sickle and sheaf of wheat in a field; above her head in design "CERES". Below "FFloris inventor [] H.Cock excudebat" and towards right ".3.". In right corner "1564". In margin "OFFICIUM ... TUENTUR. OVID". 1564. Engraving made by: Cornelis Cort, After: Frans Floris. This is an early impression of the first state with the publishers address of Hieronymus Cock, and the guide lines for the text clearly visible. / Dimensions: 27,00 x 19,40 cm Excellent early impression on laid paper with guide lines for the text still visible. On/just inside plate border with occasional tread margin around the plate border. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (104.I) --- Bierens de Haan 1948 / L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578 (160) --- Van de Velde 1975 / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570), Leven en Werken (65) --- Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (76) --- Wouk, Frans Floris / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance. (104)
