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Uncut sheet of 5 engraved images by Cornelis Galle the Younger. Unrecorded.

Uncut sheet of 5 engraved images by Cornelis Galle the Younger. Unrecorded.

Cornelis Galle the Younger. [Uncut sheet of 5 engraved devotional images]. S.l. [likely Antwerp]: “C. Galle,” s.a. [17th century]. [9.8 x 7.4 cm], [1] f. engraving. Well preserved.

 

 

Unrecorded, uncut engraved sheet of 5 small devotional vignettes by the Antwerp printmaker Cornelis Galle the Younger (1615-1678). The print depicts, within five ovals, the Adoration of the Christ Child by an angel, Christ and the angel with the chalice on the Mount of Olives, the Salvator Mundi, a non-specific female martyr being crowned by an angel, and, oriented on its side, the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception standing atop the dragon.

 

These scenes are not to be taken together as a legible narrative, but simply were engraved by Galle on the same copperplate to save space and with the intention that they be cut out and applied as decoration to other devotional pieces of some sort or another.

 

Uncut sheets of this sort are very rarely encountered today, and their constituent vignettes, once cut out, are easily lost, and so when they survive, they typically are found pasted inside a book, affixed to a larger item, etc.

 

 

This print is not recorded in the Galle volumes of New Hollstein, nor is it located by OCLC, KVK, or the online databases of the larger collections of Flemish devotional prints, e.g., Universiteit Antwerpen or Museum Catharijneconvent Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.

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