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Entry of the Count of Thurn and Taxis into Hemissen

Subject Alexander Roelants Dutch
ca. 1651
Not on view
In 1649 the count of Thurn and Taxis inherited the postal monopoly for the Holy Roman Empire, and the next year he and his wife visited the imperial postmaster for the Netherlands, Alexandre Roelants. This plate commemorates the entry into Hemissem; three coaches and horsemen arriving along sunken avenue of trees between two lines of soldiers; cannon and trumpeters in the foreground at right, village and landscape in the background.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Entry of the Count of Thurn and Taxis into Hemissen
  • Series/Portfolio: Title-page and four plates commemorating the visit paid by the Imperial Postmaster-General, the count de la Tour et Tassis, and his wife to Alexander Roelants, the Imperial Postmaster for the Netherlands (New Hollstein 1082-1086)
  • Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Subject: Lamoral Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis (German, 1621–1676)
  • Subject: Alexander Roelants (Dutch, active 1650)
  • Date: ca. 1651
  • Medium: Etching; only state
  • Dimensions: Plate: 9 3/4 × 16 1/8 in. (24.7 × 41 cm)
    Trimmed outside image and letters, but c. 3 x 6 mm within platemark.
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.2.175
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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