Philip (or Philips) Galle (1537 – March 1612), was a Dutch publisher, best known for publishing the old master prints, which he also produced as designer and engraver. He is especially known for his reproductive engravings of paintings.

Currently the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam holds the same Etching.

 

Permanent Collection held at:

 

Art Institute of Chicago

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

National Gallery of Art, DC

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Harvard University Art Museums

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Courtauld Institute of Art, London

 

6 ¾" x 4 ⅝" plate size

"Gvilielmus Lindanus". Portrait of Willem vander Linden, 1604, engraving on laid paper in lower margin: "GUILIELMUS LINDANUS EPIS- COP. GANDENSIS./ Dordracum patria est, Grudiae patria altera Athenae,/ like ammi altrices, corporis Ilia mei./ Conspicuum sancta, coluit Rurmunda tiara,/ E t Ganda in cineres officiosa meos./ N o n meliore loco nasci, potuive renasci;/ N o n meliore coli, n o n meliore mori." In margin right: "Max. Vrindus S.P.Q. Gand. a Secretis.", hinged into mat but not framed. Paper size 8" x 5 ½". From "Illustrium Galliae".