Title-page, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)

Claes Jansz. Visscher, II (after Willem van Nieulandt (Flemish, c. 1584-after 1635))

1618

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Plate: 9.8 × 15.4 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.); sheet (approximately): 18.4 × 26.3 cm (7 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

Culture

Netherlands

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Prints
• Cities and buildings
• 1600s
• Netherlands
• Black, white and grey