Hendrick Hondius I
Hendrick Hondius I is a Dutch engraver associated with the early seventeenth-century print tradition, known for incisive burin work that gave moralizing and genre subjects a sharp, graphic edge. Scenes of carnival fools and of epileptics on pilgrimage reveal an interest in social outsiders and popular custom, rendered with the crisp linearity typical of his engravings. This archive holds three of his sheets, among them the two engravings and the single first state of two recorded for these subjects. The impressions date to 1642, after the artist's lifetime, and so represent later printings of his plates rather than lifetime pulls.
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