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Dirck Volckertz. Coornhert
The World Carrying Away Knowledge and Love1550

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Engraving with densely cross-hatched lines showing a rearing horse, a large terrestrial globe, and a tangle of falling human figures, with ruined architecture in the distance

Dirck Volckertz. Coornhert, The World Carrying Away Knowledge and Love, 1550, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Werner Z. Hirsch, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Dirck Volckertz. Coornhert
Title
The World Carrying Away Knowledge and Love
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
1550
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (19.37 × 24.45 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (19.37 × 24.45 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Werner Z. Hirsch
Accession Number
M.82.250.2
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • Veldman, Ilja M. Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch Humanism in the Sixteenth Century. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1977.