Ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Adriaen Coenen, after 1583

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-2008-318
  • Dimensionsheight 300 mm x width 392 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen and black ink, with brown, grey and purple wash, over traces of graphite; framing line in black ink

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    Ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-2008-318

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • inscription: ‘Desen vis is ghevangen / achter Engelant/ van / Wisse Maertens . en Dinge- / man Iemansoon/ visschers / van Ziericzee/ Hij was / lanck anderhalf voet/ en / vierdalve dume /die groote / vimmen 9. Dumen /Die voorvimmen 3 dumen / Die diepte een voet/ en / 4. dumen: sijn buijck / was wit als silver, / zonder schellen. Gheen / vischer en weet/ hoe / dat desen genaemt is. / Op ten xiiij Octobris / Anno MDLxxxiii.’
    • watermark
    • inscription: ‘Anno 1584 Decēbris 19 / Visus Leydae / piscis planus / Rōdelet f. 425’
    • inscription: ‘Longus fuit Leydae visus 3 ½ fere / et latus […] duos / crassus fere unū’

Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Adriaen Coenen, Zeeland

  • Dating

    after 1583

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    pen and black ink, with brown, grey and purple wash, over traces of graphite; framing line in black ink

  • Dimensions

    height 300 mm x width 392 mm

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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; ? collection Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585); ? Christophe Plantin (1520-1589)…;{H. Engel, ‘Over enkele teekeningen, die eens Dodonaeus toebehoord hebben, waarbij de eerste koningsvisch (Lampris Luna) van de Europeesche kunsten’, Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam, 1940, pp. 9-25.}…; collection J.Q. van Regteren Altena (1899-1980), Amsterdam; from his heirs to the museum (L. 2228), 2008{Transfer of ownership for payment of inheritance taxes 2008.}

Documentation

  • H. Engel, ‘Over enkele teekeningen, die eens Dodonaeus toebehoord hebben, waarbij de eerste koningsvisch (Lampris Luna) van de Europeesche kunsten’, Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam, 1940, pp. 9-25.

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