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Le Capitaine Prudent (Design for an engraved tazza with a portrait of William I of Orange as Commander of Wisdom)

BRY, Theodor de (Liège, 1528 - Frankfurt, 1598).
Le Capitaine Prudent (Design for an engraved tazza with a portrait of William I of Orange as Commander of Wisdom).
Engraving, c. 1588
Diameter 120 mm.
Signed "THE DE BRI.F.ET.EX".

Bibliography:
Hollstein 178

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Lettered around the portrait "DE HOOPMAN VAN WEISHEYT / LE CAPITAINE PRVDENT" and "THE DE BRI.F.ET.EX".

Inscription at the inner circle:
"LE VRAY COMMENCEMENT DICELLE / C'EST CRAINDRE DIEU DU ARDAT ZELE ; DE DIEU VIENT TOUTE SAPIENCE / C'EST DE LUY SEUL QUELLE COMENCE / ET DEMEURE INFAILLIBLEMENT ETERNELLEMENT".

Inscription at the outer circle:
"DE WIJSHEIJT WELCK GHEWEEST HEEFT VOOR ALLE TIJDEN / SOECKT GODSALEGHE VREDE TOT SLANDTS BEURYDEN / EN HOUT DE PRINSCHEN IN EEN GHRUSTEN STAET / SIJ BEMINT DE WAERHEIJT EN WILT GHEENSINS LIJDEN / LEUGHEN NOCH BEDROCH RECHTUEERDICH IS AL HAER DAET / SALICH IS DOUERHEIJT DIESE BEHOUT INDEN RAET".