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The image features an engraving showing a rocky and wooded landscape with large trees, rocks, mountains, a distant settlement, a shipwreck on a rocky shore, the sea, birds in flight, swirling cloud formations, and a detailed and textured appearance through intricate line work. The color palette consists mainly of black and white.
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The image features an engraving showing a rocky and wooded landscape with large trees, rocks, mountains, a distant settlement, a shipwreck on a rocky shore, the sea, birds in flight, swirling cloud formations, and a detailed and textured appearance through intricate line work. The color palette consists mainly of black and white.

National Gallery of Art · Print

After the Shipwreck

Attributed to Simon Novellanus after Cornelis Cort

Date
c. 1595
Medium
etching and engraving
Classification
Print
Accession number
1964.8.468
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Netherlandish
  • Tree
  • Ship
  • Water
  • Rock
  • Cloud
Inscription

in margin below image, in plate: Nonne ille est mortis stipendiarius, qui morete quaerit unde vivat? // O mortale lutum et ventis obiecta lucerna, / I nunc et ventis animam committe, dolato // Confisus ligno, digitis a morte remotis / Quatuor, aut septem si sit latissima taeda. // Cornelius Cort Battavus fec: / excud: Hoef: cum prae: Caes:

NGA object ID 47670. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.