Thursday, May 24, 2018

Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689) - Early Prints

Paulus Pontius after Anselmus Van Hulle
Christina, Queen of Sweden at the Peace of Münster
ca. 1648
engraving with applied wash
British Museum

J.M. Beck
Emblematic print celebrating bicentenary of Peace of Westphalia (1648)
(pictured: Christina, the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Louis XIV)

1848
mezzotint printed in blue
British Museum

Wenceslaus Hollar after David Beck
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1650
etching
British Museum

Cornelis de Visscher
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1650
engraving
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Cornelis de Visscher
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1650
etching, engraving
British Museum

If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme,
Keep these among the rest, or say it was a dream,
For those that like, expound, and those that loathe express
Meanings according as their minds are moved more or less;
For writing what thou art, or showing what thou were,
Adds to the one disdain, to the other but despair,
        Thy mind of neither needs, in both seeing it exceeds.

– Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

Jeremias Falck
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1653
engraving
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jan van de Velde after David Beck
Christina, Queen of Sweden
ca. 1654
engraving, aquatint
British Museum

Philip Fruytiers
Christina, Queen of Sweden
ca. 1654
etching
British Museum

Robert Nanteuil after Sébastien Bourdon
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1654
engraving
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Sébastien Leclerc
Christina, Queen of Sweden entering Paris in 1656
created 1684, published 1702
etching
British Museum

Anonymous German printmaker
Christina, Queen of Sweden in travelling cloak
ca. 1662
etching
British Museum

Jeremias Falck
Christina, Queen of Sweden as Minerva
before 1677
engraving
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Pietro Aquila
Christina, Queen of Sweden
before 1692
etching, engraving
British Museum

Nicolas Dorigny after Simon Felice Delino
Funeral of Christina, Queen of Sweden in S Maria Vallicella, Rome
1689
engraving
British Museum

Robert van Audenaerde
Funeral procession of Christina, Queen of Sweden from S Maria Vallicella to St Peter's Basilica, Rome
1689
engraving
British Museum

attributed to Gian Paolo Panini
Tomb of Christina, Queen of Sweden in St Peter's Basilica, Rome
before 1765
watercolor
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge