Earth
Frans Menton
(Dutch, about 1550 – about 1615)
Frans Floris
(Netherlandish, 1519 or 1520–1570)
Hieronymus Cock
(Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1568
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.3 × 22.9 cm (6 × 9 in.)
Sheet: 17 × 24.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 17 × 24.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit LineStephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession number2022.60.1
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, at lower left: F. floris invent
In plate, at lower center: Pondere nixa suo quae pendet in aere terramProvenancePossibly Archibald Stirling, of Keir and Cawder [see note]. April 1996, sold by Olimpia Theodoli (dealer), London, to the Hearn Family Trust, New York; consigned by the Hearn Family Trust to Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York; 2022, sold by Susan Schulman Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 16, 2022)
NOTE: According to Olimpia Theodoli at the time the print was sold.
NOTE: According to Olimpia Theodoli at the time the print was sold.
Frans van den Wyngaerde