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SHIP OF FORTUNE

Das Lob der Schifffahrt

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Amsterdam.Berlin.Cambridge.Haarlem.Leningrad.London.Paris.Vienna

Impression in Amsterdam on vellum

Counterproof in Paris.Dutuit

This etching was used as an illustration to E.Herckmans Der Zee-Vaert  Lof . Amsterdam 1634

It appears at the beginning of Chapter III, which describes the closing of the Temple of Janus

(seen in the left hand background of the work) after the defeat of Mark Antony (left hand foreground)

at Actium

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REMBRANDT AT 400

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2011