VISSCHER, CORNELIS, Portrait of Floris V

Beschrijving

'Florentius Vtus, Wilhelmi Regin Rom.rum filius'. Oval portrait of Floris V (1254 – 1296), Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1256 (with his uncle Floris de Voogd as acting regent until 1266).

Etching and engraving on laid paper. Sheet size 294 x 401 mm., platemark 293 x 398 mm. Made by Cornelis Visscher. Number XIX in the top edge of the image.

The work 'Principes Hollandiae et Westfrisiae', written by Petrus Scriverius, was published in 1650 by Pieter Soutman in Haarlem, and contained a total of 38 portraits of the Counts of Holland, from the year 863 onward.

In good condition, margins cropped close to the platemark.

Petrus Scriverius (1576 – 1660), the latinised form of Peter Schrijver, was a Dutch author and scholar on the history of the Low Countries, as well as classical literature.

References: Hollstein 77-116; Smith 146-185.