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Roemer
1621
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- roemer
- Dimensions
- diameter 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J. Kneppelhout Bequest, Oosterbeek
- 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
Anna Roemers Visscher derived the decorative motifs on this glass – such as the flowers and the dragonfly – from old prints. In the cryptic Italian inscription, the flowers address a certain Dora or Dorothea, whom they thank for bestowing fame on them.
