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Roemer
c. 1600 - c. 1625
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- roemer
- Dimensions
- diameter 21.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.J. Enschedé Bequest, Haarlem
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Glass-engravers often took the models for their decoration from prints. This is the case here. The birds and the curious sea creature are derived from late 16th-century engravings by Nicolaes de Bruyn. The fairly crudely drawn trees are probably the invention of the glass-engraver.
