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MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (1498 Heemskerk – 1574 Haarlem)
 
MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (1498 Heemskerk – 1574 Haarlem).
Jan van Stalburch after Heemskerck.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
 
Etching and engraving, 1556.
 
Signed on the chimney upper right “M.Heemsk.” and “Stalburch”
 
In the lower margin ”Officiosa man(us), civilis lingua, probu(m)q(ue) lumen, su(n)t tria q(ue maxima mu(n)dus habet. Ista deos, hominesq(ue) move(n)t, en mitigate ira(m), vox mollis, quo scit cedere victor abit.”
 
A very strong impression of this rare print.
Kerrich p. 125., Hollstein VIII, 474, Hollstein XXVIII, Stalburch, 6., New Hollstein 474.
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