Mark, from The Four Evangelists
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 5 11/16 in. (20.5 × 14.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Van Day Truex Fund, 2014
Accession Number
2014.465.2
Tags
BooksSaint Mark
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher|Pieter Feddes van Harlingen · 1586–1652
Claes Jansz. Visscher, also known as Nicolas Joannis Visscher II or Joannis Piscator, was a prominent Dutch Golden Age draughtsman, engraver, mapmaker, and publisher born in Amsterdam in 1587 and died there on June 19, 1652. The son of the printmaker and publisher Jan Claesz. Visscher (c. 1550–1612), he learned the art of etching and printing from his father, helping to expand the family trade int...