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| Hendrick Goltzius Self-portrait 1589 drawing on vellum British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Self-portrait, age 47 1605 drawing on vellum British Museum |
Hendrik Golzius (1558-1617) was an adventurous Dutch artist, printer, and businessman. In 1578 at the age of twenty he set up his own print publishing house in Haarlem. The intention was to challenge Antwerp's traditional monopoly on fine art print publishing in the region. Thanks in large part to the glamour and drama and technical innovation of the engravings and woodcuts Goltzius himself produced, the enterprise succeeded. It must indeed have felt like every young artist's dream come true.
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| Hendrik Goltzius Beached Whale 1594 engraving, etching British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of Gillis van Breen ca. 1588 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Bacchus ca. 1588-90 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Mars ca. 1588-90 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Mars ca. 1588 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Arcadian landscape ca. 1612-15 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Sybils (after Polidoro da Caravaggio) 1597 engraving British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Apollo Belvedere 1592 engraving British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Netpune and Amphitrite ca. 1594 engraving British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Bacchus 16th century engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of Frederick de Vries 1597 engraving British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Mansucript letter with drawing of an old man 1606 British Museum |
I am grateful for images from the rich Goltzius collection made available by the British Museum.